Floppy on fc12 could not find

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 15:00:24 -0400,
  Vincent Onelli <vonelli at optonline.net> wrote:
> 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 click 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.
> Any idea what else I could be doing wrong?    

This is due to a decision the kernel team made to balance easy floppy use
for old hardware and broken bios that cause long delays when checking
for floppy drives that aren't there. Kyle had an idea how to make something
that would be better in most cases, but I don't think he has had a chance to
implement it yet.

More background is in:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537741
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565693
The email thread beginning with:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kernel/2010-April/002394.html

Putting the modprobe floppy in rc.local I think will work as a work around.