Floppy Woes Part2

[roller]

How come all the floppy problems...now I have 'em. Just tried to mount my floppy and I get: Could not mount device. Mount:/dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
So I go to dev/fd0 check the properties and I see

Type : Block device
Location: /dev
Size: 0 B (0)
Free space on/: 391.4MB/493.8MB (15% Used)

Any ideas here....Haven't changed anything...it was working before...and I'm running RH8....and I'm a newbie so not to technical please:D

[bwkaz]

<dumb question>

Is there a disk in the drive? There has to be before it'll be a valid block device, rather than just a block device (actually, there's no difference between the two, except that the kernel floppy driver will respond with ENODEV or similar if there's no disk in the drive, so it looks to programs like it's an invalid device).

</dumb question>

Can you dd from the device to a file? Go ahead and delete the file when you're done, this is just a check that the device is working properly.

Perhaps the disk is corrupted? Been near any speakers with it lately?