Guest Fixit Posted October 4, 2007 Report Share Posted October 4, 2007 (edited) This problem relates to Mandriva Flash. Double clicking the Devices icon on the desktop fails to show icons for either the floppy drive or the EIDE Iomega Zip drive. Going to Control Panel > Hardware and clicking the button "Look at and configure the hardware" the Zip drive is shown as having been detected (as hdd4) but the floppy drive is not listed at all. By doing various things at the command line and in Control Panel I can get both devices to appear as icons in Devices, and can mount/unmount them from there, but they disappear again at shut down and do not reappear at the subsequent re-boot. If it will help, I can supply details of what I have to do to get the icons into Devices, but what I really need to know is why they are not there in the first place and how to keep them there permanently. I would be grateful for suggestions. Lines for the two devices are present in /etc/fstab and seem to be correct. The device fd0 is present in the /dev directory, but not hdd4 and the mount points /media/floppy and /mnt/zip do exist. Edited November 7, 2007 by Fixit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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