Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 427007
Floppy drive undetected.
Last modified: 2009-01-09 00:39:00 EST
Description of problem: Not sure I've got this under the correct component. This only happens on the one computer (PCChips M811 Motherboard). There is no device /dev/fd0 created and no floppy icon in the 'Computer' folder on the Gnome desktop. There was no problem with Fedora 7 and no hardware has been changed. I made a clean install of Fedora 8. The floppy is detected OK by BIOS. If I load a Knoppix live CD I can read files on a floppy with no problem. I tried disconnecting the drive, rebooting, reconnecting, rebooting but still no recognition. If I do '/sbin/modprobe floppy' everything starts to work perfectly, so I put 'modprobe floppy' in /etc/rc.d/rc.local to get it to load at every boot. Now I've got all the /dev/fd0 devices and a floppy icon. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): All How reproducible: Constant Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot 2. 3. Actual results: No floppy device created Expected results: /dev/fd0 created and floppy icon in desktop folder Additional info: Floppy Drive is Mitsumi 1.44Mb Internal 3.5 Disk Drive Model D359M3D
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