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Floppy will not mount on SUSE

I have installed SUSE 10 on a laptop that has a swappable CDROM/Floppy drive. When I was installing the OS my CDROM was connected. Later I tried to swap it with the Floppy and mount it but no success. Here is what I get:

dell:/dev # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
/dev/fd0: Invalid argument

mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
/dev/fd0: Invalid argument
mount: /dev/fd0: can't read superblock

/etc/fstab doesn't have an entry for floppy. It almost looks like it doesn't see the hardware however when I run YaST hardware info it finds floppy disk controller OK. How can I fix this?

PS. I tried to reboot - same result

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NAME

       SDL::CDTrack -- SDL Bindings for structure SDL_CDTrack

CATEGORY

       Core, CDROM, Structure

SYNOPSIS

	use SDL;
	use SDL::CDROM;
	use SDL::CD ':status';
	use SDL::CDTrack;

	SDL::init( SDL_INIT_CDROM );

	my $drives = SDL::CDROM::num_drives();

	if( $drives > 0 )
	{
	    my $CD = SDL::CD->new(0); #first drive's CD

	    if($CD)
	    {
		if( $CD->status != CD_TRAYEMPTY )
		{
		    my $track = SDL::CD->track(0);
		}
	    }
	}

CONSTANTS

       The constants are exported by default. You can avoid this by doing:

	use SDL::CDTrack ();

       and access them directly:

	SDL::CDTrack::SDL_AUDIO_TRACK;

       or by choosing the export tags below:

       Export tag: ':type'

	SDL_AUDIO_TRACK
	SDL_DATA_TRACK

METHOD

   id
	$track->id() # 0-99

       Track number

   type
	$track->type() # SDL_AUDIO_TRACK or SDL_DATA_TRACK

       Type of track

   length
	$track->length()

       Length, in frames, of this track

   offset
	$track->offset()

       Frame offset to the beginning of this track

SEE ALSO

       SDL::CDROM, SDL::CD

AUTHORS

       See "AUTHORS" in SDL.

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