On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 15:00:24 -0400, Vincent Onelli <vonelli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I loose the floppy Icon every time I reboot. To get it back I need to > run "modprobe floppy", this may not be too much of problem, but I still > can't access the diskette when I try to access it by double click the > icon the message appears "unable to mount location no media in the > drive" , by the way the diskette and floppy are OK with windows I also > try few other diskette. I do not know how to access from command line. > Any idea what else I could be doing wrong? This is due to a decision the kernel team made to balance easy floppy use for old hardware and broken bios that cause long delays when checking for floppy drives that aren't there. Kyle had an idea how to make something that would be better in most cases, but I don't think he has had a chance to implement it yet. More background is in: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537741 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565693 The email thread beginning with: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kernel/2010-April/002394.html Putting the modprobe floppy in rc.local I think will work as a work around. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
