What happened to floppy drive support?

[Paul Allen Newell]

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 20:36:09 +0000,
>   "n2xssvv.g02gfr12930" <n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>   
>> I've been using a floppy boot disk as reserve if my HD boot fails, But
>> it appears floppy support as now been removed. Why? Then how can I
>> create an emergency media that is flexible enough to be updated as required?
>>     
>
> I haven't gotten around to filing a bug about this since I wasn't sure
> if it was intentional or not, but you can use:
> modprobe floppy
> to create /dev/fd0 and be able to use your floppy drive.
>   
I filed one awhile back, don't know if it fits your issue. Before filing 
I did check to see the /dev/fd0 and/or the link to /dev/floppy existed. 
I haven't again tested recently above and beyond confirming that it 
wasn't working under f12 (the bug was filed under f11)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537741