OK so I ran a search on google and found one, the first entry, but without any solution. So I was hoping the local guru's here would be able to offer some help....

My floppy drive, which was avalable on the machine a few weeks ago, is gone now. I am not sure what happened to it. I updated my system and since then I have no floppy drive. It doesn't show up in the file browser, and I tried to mount fd0 and that didn't work either saying that there was no device.

If anyone could show me the way to troubleshoot this, I would be gratefull.

Thanks

Can you access it from another OS?

Thanks for the response, but I don't have another OS on this machine.

Hello all. I tried to load a disk mounter on the panel thinking it would do the work for me, but it told me it couldn't find any device in either the fstab or mtab files. So I looked over the files and noticed no mention of a fd0 there.

Is there some command to get it to see it? It is in the bios setup correctly, and it was here prior to an update.

Please help - a floppy is a terrible thing to lose.

Kevin

can you boot a live cd and see if that detects teh drive?

Try your best to see tha the problem dont' come from your physical device (using another OS or live CD)

Exactly what line did you use when trying to mount fd0? Try...

# su (log in as root)
# mount -t <filesystem-type> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

(assuming /mnt/floppy is an existing directory)

You say you "updated your system". Is there a chance your kernel's support for IDE / Floppy devices was broken?

Try booting the system from a bootable floppy,dont complain that you dont have one ... arrange it.

If system boots then, you have probable have goofed up with /etc/fstab, then try solution as given by seandon4.