[ale] Auto-mount floppy in Fedora

[Geoffrey]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 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)

And use them...  We have no patience for cheaters...


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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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