[SWLUG] floppy not mounted when inserted

[Stephen Constantinou]

Dear All

I am using Mandriva 2008 on a laptop.  Floppies that I am able to read 
and write to in Windows are not automatically mounted when I place them 
in the floppy drive of my Mandriva 2008 machine.  (Annoyingly I do not 
have this problem on my Mandriva 2007 machine).  Nor does there appear 
an icon for the floppy when I double click the storage media icon on the 
desktop.

I tried some command line stuff as root:
[stephanos at localhost media]# mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
[stephanos at localhost media]#
This works.  I am then able to use Konqueror to browse the floppy.

However, becoming Root and them mounting a floppy is a ridicules 
situation.  I would like to be able to do this automatically, just like 
I could in Mandriva 2007 and in Windows.

My USB stick, the internal DVD R/W drive and the external PCMCIA CD ROM 
are all accessible automatically.  Here is the content of my /etc/fstab 
  file:
<fstab>
/dev/hda1 / ext3 noatime 1 1
/dev/hda6 /home ext2 noatime 1 2
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto 
umask=0022,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto 
umask=0022,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,exec,flush 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
</fstab>

Any help appreciated

Stephen