Floppy drive Setup Problem

[Richard Bligdon]

help a novice ....using RH 6.0.    I can't seem to get the Floppy Drive(fd0) in order.    I set up aplets on the panel for fd0 and cdrom...the cdrom works fine,but I am getting a number of errors with the floppy drive....namely:    Upon system boot up:    "floppy drive fd0 not valid block device [fail]" ( twice...2nd time under "mount other file systems")...   When I try to access the drive from the panel applet I get the msg:    Floppy drive not valid file system 2>&1... not mounted....or too many filesystems mounted"    Sometimes,I get a freezeup when I try to access the panel applet(I think it's clear now tho)...   /etc/fstab for fd0:   /mnt/floppy  /mnt/fd0 ....ext2 user,dev,suid,... 0 0    I am writing this from memory on my win98 box as it has a 56k modem...the linuxbox  has a SLOW one...also I tried to copy fstab to a floppy using mcopy(it worked then,but just now mdir gave the error "fd0 not configured")...but when I accessed it with notepad only the first line of text was there!    Anyway,has anybody ever had this problem,or can someone get me on the right track?      Richard