Floppy on fc12 could not find

[Vincent]

> From: James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: Floppy on fc12 could not find

> Vincent Onelli <vonelli at optonline.net> wrote:
> >> >   On 08/08/2010 12:32 PM, Vincent wrote:
> >> > > Hello,
> >> > > I am try to use the floppy on Dell Dimension 8300 with fc12 but it
> >> > > didn't mount.
> >> > > Here is what I did:
> >> > > # mkdir /mnt/floppy
> >> > >
> >> > > # mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 mnt/floppy
> >> > > mount: special device /dev/fd0 does not exist
> >> > >
> >> > > I look in the dev directory the fd0 does not exist.
> >> > > I will appreciate help
> >> > > and thank you in advace
> >> > > Vinny
> >> > >
> >> > try modprobe floppy first.
> >> > 
> >> did, no change.
> >> 
> >> oops.. My apology I recall the previous entry that I was try different
> >> dir "etc" I correct to "dev" and every thing works fine.
> >> thank you very much.
> >> vinny
> >> 
> >I loose the floppy Icon every time I reboot. To get it back I need to
> >run "modprobe floppy", this may not be too much of problem, but I still
> >can't access the diskette when I try to access it by double clicking the
> >icon. The message appears "unable to mount location no media in the
> >drive". By the way the diskette and floppy are OK with windows I also
> >try few other diskette. I do not know how to access from command line.
> 
> You can try to access the drive by typing in:
> 
> cd /mnt/floppy (that is where is shows up on my system)
> 
> and then
> 
> ls
> 
> This should list all of the files readable on the drive.
> 
> 
> >Any idea what else I could be doing wrong?
> 
> Don't know.  Not many folks use floppy disks anymore.
> 
> You did state that the disks are read/writable under Windows, correct?
> 
> I'll verify that my disk drive works this evening as I still have one or two around and a computer with a micro-floppy drive.
> 
> James McKenzie
> 
I try "$ cd /mnt/floppy 
$ ls	
it didn't show any files. I have 2 computer both behaving the same.