[SWLUG] floppy not mounted when inserted

[Stephen Constantinou]

Dear All

Problem Solved - the easy way!!!

In Mandriva 2007 I insert a floppy but nothing happens.  All I have to
do is open Konqueror and navigate to /mnt/floppy, which then makes the
computer read the floppy and content appears.  Like magic!

I have not managed to achieve that degree of integration with Mandriva 
2008, but I did achieve something as a result of Steve Hills comments. 
Any improvement to the Mandriva 2007 method welcome but now I can at 
least read/write to floppies.

The solution: Right click on desktop and chose "Create New", then "Link 
to Device", then "Floppy Device", Device tab - choose "/dev/fdo 
(/media/floppy)", OK.  A new icon on desktop appears.  Insert floppy, 
double click icon, much reading of floppy drive, and konqueror opens 
with content of floppy in /media/floppy.

Thanks to all

Stephen

Steve Hill wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, Stephen Constantinou wrote:
> 
>> 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).
> 
> You can't automatically mount floppy disks when inserted on standard PC 
> drives since the drive won't notify the system of the event.  The 
> closest you can get is auto-mounting the drive when you access its mount 
> point. autofs will let you do this (on Fedora you can configure it 
> through /etc/auto.master and /etc/auto.misc and then chkconfig the 
> service on, but I have no experience of Mandriva).
> 
>  - Steve
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> 
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