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Date:      06 Sep 2003 09:54:00 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Possible errors in FreeBSD 5.1
Message-ID:  <44llt2c9af.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <3F599952.5000403@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
References:  <3F58FDF6.3030707@pacbell.net> <3F599952.5000403@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>

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Hendrik Hasenbein <hhasenbe@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> writes:

> James Leone wrote:
> > 2. While I am in KDE in FreeBSD, but not in KDE in Linux, if I click
> > on the Floppy Device icon before the floppy is inserted, I will not
> > be able to access a subsequently inserted floppy disk. When I do, I
> > get an error that says: "the device is not configured."
> 
> Why do you even want to access a floppy before you insert it into the
> drive? No system should be able to do that. Kde tries to mount the
> floppy on clicking on the item. That is going to fail, because without
> a floppy in the drive there is no device in the device
> filesystem. Can't think why that should work with linux.

Of course, but if you *then* insert a floppy and try to mount it, that
should work.  He's saying it doesn't.  It does for me, using the
command line on -STABLE, so this is either a KDE problem or a 5.x
problem.  



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