I have a floppy drive debian and arch will not use. It works well enough when I put an unformatted disk in it and boot the computer the boot process is stopped and remains so until that floppy disk gets removed. It's one of the 3.5 inch floppy disks and I noticed several different possible formats for it in /etc/mediaprm when I checked that file. Even new floppy disks with no low level formatting on them will not low level format and forget about any other access operations. Unless I'm overlooking something, there doesn't appear to be any command line tool to do a floppy probe operation and write an appropriate configuration file or update /etc/fstab. kde has kde-floppy but kde hasn't got accessibility to the same extent command line users with speakup have or emacspeak or gnome users have with orca. I'll probably be able to move files off floppy disks if I can get the internal drive working or if that fails buy a usb floppy and try to get that working. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- jude <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Adobe fiend for failing to Flash _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list