Hi there, I've been using Linux for five years (but still by NO means an expert), and have almost always been able to solve my own problems by looking around the net. However, I haven't found any reference to this problem anywhere. My father in law built us a new system a couple of months ago with Windows XP on one partition and Red Hat 9 (kernel is 2.4.8, I believe) on another. The floppy drive works fine under Windoze but, embarrassingly, when I try to read/write to floppy drive from Linux the system freezes - hard. I'll mount the drive with a floppy known to be OK on other Linux boxes: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy Then I try to read or write to it. The light on the floppy drive remains on, and the system completely freezes up and requires a hard boot. I can format a floppy but can't read/write the same floppy. I've also tried the msdos filesystem with the same result: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy My fstab looks like this: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,noauto 0 0 Any ideas?? Jeff J -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
