On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:35:13PM -0700, Patrick R. Wade wrote:
> I'm assuming you're using a non-Mac here.  PCs do not automatically 
> sense the presence of a disk in the floppy drive, you need to mount it; 
> it might be mountable as /mnt/floppy.  What distribution are you using?

USB floppy drives can autosense, they have to.  You can poll a classic FDC
drive and there's a kernel patch or two that do it, but they're not really
recommended for people with more than two synapses.

-- 
"We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, therefore, is not an act,
but a habit."
        -- Aristotle

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