[ale] Auto-mount floppy in Fedora

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 20:09, Matthew Magee wrote:

> According to my A+ book, pin 34 on a floppy drive signals 
> insertion/ejection of a disk, so the mechanism appears to be there.  On 
> my Mandrake 9.2 system I can insert/eject a floppy at will.  Does not 
> open a Konqueror window though.  Still have to do that myself.

Yep. There in theory only. Since the floppy drive was invented during
the DOS era (error?) and MS-DOS never supported a way to auto-check it
was never actually used.

That said, it may be time to grab a floppy and do some cable prodding to
see if pin 34 really does change state on insertion.

A box of AOL CD's says it won't. :) Unless the tester swiped the drive
from a Mac (that would be cheating and the cheater would be required to
_take_ a box of AOL CD's)

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