floppy drive won't work

[bobterri]

When I try to access my floppy drive by clicking on my floppy mount icon on KDE desktop, Konqueror comes up, but the following message comes up: "unsupported action listDir." My compaq 1275 laptop is running mandrake 8.1. Any one got any ideas? Google/linux didn't offer any help, at least by typing in "unsupported action listDir."

[banzaikai]

Howdy.

Does this thing have one of those swappable floppies? If so, poke a flashlight in there and check for bent/missing pins. If all seems to be in order, then have the BIOS check floppies on boot, and see if any errors pop up. If this passes muster, then the problem may lie in Konqueror. Try accessing the disk from a terminal window:
cd /mnt/floppy0
ls -l

If all works, then Konqueror's the problem - try to see if something's misconfigured.

Hope this helps...

banzai

[mdwatts]

As banzaikai suggested, try accessing your floppy drive through the commandline.

Insert a floppy disk.

mount /mnt/floppy

ls -al /mnt/floppy

umount /mnt/floppy

If you have any problems mounting the floppy drive, please post the contents of /etc/fstab so we can have a look.

[michaelk]

Probably related to the supermount issue with 8.1 If mounting the drives with the command line works then delete the icons and create new ones. The same goes for the CDROM too.

[bobterri]

Thanks to all! You all sent me looking in the right direction. I found out by right clicking the icon on desktop and going to properties and clicking the device tab that the device was set to /mnt/floppy. I changed it to /mnt/fd0 and now it works perfectly. Thanks again everyone