Floppy drive not responding.

[HermanAA]

On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 12:38 +0200, Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
> On Fri, June 26, 2009 11:42, HermanAA wrote:
> > my (newly added) floppy does not show up.
> > Cannot mount drive ... seems to be the problem.
> > The floppy drive is working under WINdows.
> >
> > I must be doing something wrong in the setup.
> >
> > my fstab : (bulk removed)
> >
> > # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> > #
> > # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> > # /dev/sda7
> > UUID=30e9fe48-0445-caa3-7ca4-df11b4f31f5b none            swap    sw
> > $
> > /dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0
> > 0
> > /dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
> 
> It seams to be set to automount, thus as soon as you insert a working
> floppy in the drive, you should have /media/floppy0 available.

It does not check for a floppy, period. AFAICT.
 (I have tried about 10 floppies)
The system does not see the Floppy-drive looks like.

Herman in PHL.