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Re: Mounting Floppy Disk and CD Rom
- To: http://www.juno.com/~w1few (Richard), http://www.dracomp.com/~r (Richard)
- Subject: Re: Mounting Floppy Disk and CD Rom
- From: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 06:56:25 -0700
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> From: "http://www.juno.com/~w1few"; <http://www.juno.com/~w1few>
> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:01:17 GMT
>
> Thanks - worked for the CDROM but not the Floppy. I think I have to go to the
> BIOS setup.
> D
You could try:
$ ls -d /dev/fd*
It may be there somewhere.
If you still cannot see it, there may be a problem with the driver not
being loaded. Try:
$ sudo modprobe floppy
and then try the above "ls" command to see if the device becomes
available.
If this works, see
http://forums.techarena.in/operating-systems/1133210.htm on how to make
this change permanent.