Comment 38 for bug 719013

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Roland Hughes (original-seasoned-geek) wrote :

>What happens when you execute the following at a terminal:
>sudo superformat -v 3 -B /dev/fd0 HD

My floppy drive lights up NOT my LS-120.

Acutally I have. Per your request:
>Also, could you please test the latest upstream kernel available?

I told you I have no ability to put another OS on this machine nor do I have limitless download from my ISP. Having had Fedora on here once a year ago I'm certainly not going to install it.

Aparently I'm not making myself clear.

I have a FLOPPY DRIVE hooked up to a floppy cable.
My LS-120 is hooked up to IDE.
My hard drive and DVD are SATA.

Per your earlier statment:
>the kernel seems to have recognized the floppy drive, and in turn, your drive was mounted at /dev/fd0

that seems to be the rabbit hole we are going down. fd0 is NOT my ls-120, it is an actual floppy drive. It appears in the "folder" manager but is completely disfunctional from there. The LS-120 only appears there when it actually has a disk inserted.