[CLUE-Tech] Floppy Drive woes and SuSE

[Ralph Jones]

I just recently (yesterday) reinstalled SuSE 9.1 and suddenly my
Floppy has ceased to work.

More accurately, it can be mounted, and the system recognizes the
drive.  However whenever I attempt to read from or write to the drive,
it just spins and spins and spins until eventually I am blessed with a
'No Media Found' response.  If I eject the floppy while it's spinning
I'll get the same response immediately, so I know the system
recognizes the drive and when there's a physical disc in the drive.  I
can just no long read or write.

The drive was working fine on my previous install of SuSE, and
continues to work in Windows.  I've also checked the integrity of a
disc on another machine to verify it's contents.  The problem persists
whether I'm logged in as Root or as a user.  I've also found the same
results whether from a terminal, or with a filemanager in both KDE and
Gnome.

Here the entry in my /etc/fstab...(which I doubt is the problem)
/dev/fd0    /media/floppy   subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0

Any ideas?

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