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Mounting an Atari ST floppy on tumbleweed

Specs of my machine are in my signature. I physically added a 3,5 inch floppy drive and activated it in the BIOS, specifying a 720 kB capacity (standard for Atari). The "floppy" kernel module is inserted. Atari's implementation of the MS-Dos FAT specifications is faulty but most drivers could read the floppies anyhow in the old times ;). When I insert a floppy nothing happens (control lamp doesn't flicker either). Running "dolphin" and clicking on floppy yields:

Quote:

During access to „Floppy“ an error occurred: Error mounting /dev/fd0 at /run/media/me/disk: Command-line `mount -t "auto" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/fd0" "/run/media/me/disk"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: /run/media/me/disk: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device.

Not a valid block device is also the error when I try to mount manually. /dev/fd0 exists, though. How to proceed best?

What's on the floppy and what format, filesystem type?

When you tried to mount manually, did you still use auto? If you specified fat, did you specify 16-bit? I suspect that the system needs all the help it can get with a TOS disk!

There are some text files on the floppy, file system is fat, but the Atari / TOS version with initially two aberrant bytes (don't remember all the details).

Yes, I used auto. How to specify 16 bit fat? I tried "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt" and got "mount: /mnt: /dev/fd0 is no valid block-device"...