Floppy problem temporarelly solved

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 06:29:53 -0500,
  vinny <vonelli at optonline.net> wrote:
> Hello,
> I for while trying to get the floppy drive to work, then today I found a
> suggestion in one of bugzilla to use the "modprobe floppy" command to
> get the floppy to appear in the computer, that worked, but still could
> not access the floppy but now aloud me to mount floppy by entering the
> fallowing commands:
> #mkdir /media/floppy
> #mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy

The above is being tracked in bugs:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567533
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514329

> Now the floppy Icon appeared in the desktop, it works fine, the floppy
> Icon under the computer, however, still does not work.
> I hop that some expert will understand better what is going on and be
> able to fix. This work around is only temporary it appear that must be
> repeated on every reboot.

This seems closer to the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537741