Fat (dos) floppy discs won't mount, filesystem unrecognised.

[Daniel Robitaille]

> I had the same problem and that fstab line worked, thanks Jeremy!
> However, I have the same question as Neil, why doesn't auto detect that
> it's vfat?

after seeing this thread, I decided to try (for the first time) my
floppy drive, and I experienced the same problem: it didn't work with
the auto detect, but mount worked specifying "vfat".