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USB Floppy Drive problem

i just recently installed slackware 9.1, my disc drive was working fine immediately after the install, but now for some reason whenI try to mount it I get the message

/dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

my fstab:

Code:

/dev/hda6        swap            swap        defaults        0  0



/dev/hda5        /                reiserfs    defaults        1  1



/dev/hda1        /mnt/windows    vfat        noauto,users    1  0



/dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom      iso9660    noauto,users,ro  0  0



/dev/fd0        /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,users    0  0



/dev/sda1        /mnt/flash      auto        noauto,users    0  0



devpts          /dev/pts        devpts      gid=5,mode=620  0  0



proc            /proc            proc        defaults        0  0

and I do have a disc in the drive, so thats not the problem

The /dev/fd0 is a symbolic link to somewhere else on your system. Try typing in "readlink /dev/fd0" so you can figure out where that link is pointing to. To make sure that your computer is detecting the floppy drive, try something like cat /proc/bus/usb/devices as root.

Hope some of this helps