Floppy Drive not recognised

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Published on 2011-04-25T08:38:29Z Indexed on 2012/03/29 17:42 UTC
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I am a newbie with Ubuntu during the past two weeks, and I believe, that I have made good progress so far. Current setup tasks are completed, like: "Wireless Network, Printer, Thunderbird + Firefox, e-mail", also my local weather station - all setup. Updated files and rearranged the desktop to my liking.

The problem I have now is my floppy drive which is not recognized, but the activity light is shown on constantly.

I have downloaded the "MakeFloppyDriveAvailableToEveryone" and i am confident that I can follow the instructions to change the floppy drive. However, I do not have an existing fd0 file in /dev/???, but only /dev/fd/ files 0 to 46.

Please advise.

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