Description of problem: Red Hat Linux 8.0 cannot create boot disk at end of 
installation or mount floppy after it is installed.  However, the floppy drive 
worked fine when Red Hat Linux 6.2 and 7.0 were reinstalled.  Model of floppy 
drive is Sony MPF920-Z.  

When booting the following messages were displayed:

ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 > hda3 hda4
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
floppy0: Floppy io-port 0x03f2 in use

The following SCSI error message was also displayed, but the two SCSI devices 
on the system worked fine:

SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.8
        <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter>
        aic7880: Ultra Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs

System is configured to dual boot with Windows NT 4.0.  The floppy drive works 
fine with Windows NT.

Attached are /proc information, complete dmesg, and configuration data obtained 
by running winmsd in Windows NT.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
2.
3.
    
Actual results:
mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device


Expected results:
Floppy should have mounted.

Additional info:
# ls -l /dev/fd0
brw-rw----    1 root     floppy     2,   0 Aug 30 16:31 /dev/fd0