From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; zh-CN; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Description of problem: Bad: can't mount floppy Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install redhat 9.0 2.install kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl 3.rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.i686.rpm 4.reboot .you will find system has remove floppy from /etc/fstab to /etc/fstab.REVOKE,and can't use floppy Actual Results: can't mount floppy Expected Results: can use floppy as old time Additional info:
Problem also present in kernel-2.4.22-1.2108.nptl.athlon.rpm using Asus A7V333-X mobo & RH9 with all latest updates. Floppy works fine with kernel-2.4.20-20.9; rebooting with 2108 or 2115 floppy not found: [lewis@dogbert sw]$ sudo !! sudo mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy/ Password: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device [lewis@dogbert sw]$ dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null dd: opening `/dev/fd0': No such device or address ... but the good news is the b44 driver in this kernel works a dream 8-)
is the floppy module loaded ? any floppy related messages in dmesg ?
The floppy module was not loaded - presumably it's not a module in 2.4.20.20.9. Loading module, floppy works fine, so problem solved.