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Wednesday, January 31st 2007, 7:07am

Floppy Drive not showing up in Konqueror

I have an up to date install of gentoo, KDE 3.5.5 and in the media page I can see all of the partitions but not the 2 floppy drives, Any idea whats going on, The screen unfortunately doesnt let me add links to the devices
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Wednesday, January 31st 2007, 7:26am

floppy drives are usually added to the file /etc/fstab, and then mounted in the traditional way with a mount command.

You can then acces the floppy in the directory /mnt/floppy1 or /media/floppy1 or whatever directory you have used to mount the device.

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Wednesday, January 31st 2007, 3:27pm

Yes, Understood


Heres my fstab

/dev/hda13 / reiserfs defaults 0 1
/dev/hda1 /WindowsXP vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda3 /Suse10.2 reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda5 /Ubuntu6.06 reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda6 /FedoraCore5XGL reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda7 /Ubuntu6.10 reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda8 /Sabayan3.2 reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda9 /FedoraCore6 reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda10 /Mandriva2007 reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda11 /Mepis6 reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda12 /Parsix reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc1 /MyDocuments reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd1 /media/floppy1 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0


I have created links on my desktop to my 2 floppies and I can use them to mount and unmount the floppies but even mounted they do not show up in my media folder as does a cd or dvd that does automount itself and show up next to the partitions in my media folder

I have tried to create the links manually by edit, create, link to device

but it wont let me write to that folder as I believe Media is some type of virtual folder.
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Wednesday, January 31st 2007, 8:11pm

media:/ is indeed a virtual folder. It is actually a kioslave, and AFAIK it gets its information about media devices from dbus and hal.

I doubt that it is possible to add your floppy devices manually to it.
At least it won't work via drag-n-drop etc, you should edit the configuration of dbus/hal i guess..
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Thursday, February 1st 2007, 1:42am

Okay, thanks to your suggestion about checking into hal and dbus I believe I am making some headway,

!st off, I have seen that In Gnome, under nautilus, I can see my two floppy drives, the computer folder,
Then I attempted to stop the services and repeatably have seen that if I boot up and do not start the hald daemon, The Floppy drives show up, If I start the haldaemon after having booted they dissappear, Now I am Really Confused!!!!
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Thursday, February 1st 2007, 9:49am

Dunno if it is related, but look at the reply of kriko in this thread:
Media notifications

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