Why does initial opening of the floppy or USB drive open theroot of the hard drive?

[Arch Willingham]

Nope...they are all over the place....Dell Inspirion laptop, Dell C840 laptop, AMD clone (Asus), Intel clone P4, Dell Dimension, etc.

Arch

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Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 5:23 PM
To: For users of Fedora
Subject: Re: Why does initial opening of the floppy or USB drive open
theroot of the hard drive?


On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 12:43 -0400, Arch Willingham wrote:
> Here is the issue:
> 
> 1. I put a floppy disk in the drive of any of my FC7 machines (five of them)
> 2. I dbl click on the floppy disk icon (in Gnome)
> 3. The computer waits a few seconds and then opens up to the root the boot hard drive.
> 4. If I close it and then dbl click on the floppy drive icon, it reads the floppy drive.
> 
> This same thing hold true when I plug in a USB flash drive. Its not the end of the world but its hard to explain to end users.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Arch
> 
Despite the blame being put on udev I have not seen this problem. Are
all the 5 machines the same hardware version?
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