System is a Toshiba Satellite 1110 that I am running as a dual boot with Windows XP and Fedora core 5. Floppy works fine under windows xp. Stopped working today I believe because of new udev-078-2. Notices also the udev does not display usual messages about initializing storage, sound etc.
From: "James W. Bennett" <silverhead@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Floppy Drive
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 13:16:43 -0500
>Don Springall wrote:
>
>>I think with today's update my system stopped detecting the floppy
>>drive. No messages any longer in dmesg detecting floppy. Nothing
>>in /etc/fstab for it any more either.
>>Kernel 2.6.15-rc5-git6
>>udev-078-2
>>hal-0.5.5.1-2.1
>>
>>
>What Motherboard are you using? The reason I asked is I am using an
>ASUS P5WD2 Premium and soon after I installed this motherboard my
>floppy quit working, and has never work since. I have purchases two
>new floppy drives and still don't work. But it is not the fault of
>Linux but the fault of ASUS. What I am saying is be sure it is not
>your hardware that is failing.
>
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