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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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mkill

MKILL(8)						       The SuSE boot concept							  MKILL(8)

MKILL

       Mkill - Send processes making a active mount point busy a signal

SYNOPSIS

       mkill [-SIG] [-u] /mnt1 [/mnt2...]
       mkill [-l]

DESCRIPTION

       mkill  determines  all  active  mount points from /proc/mounts and compares this with the specified mount points. Then mkill seeks for pro-
       cesses making this mount points busy. For this search only the links found in /proc/<pid>/ are used to avoid hangs  on  files  provided	by
       network	file  systems  like nfs(5).  The default signal is SIGTERM for termination. If a mount point is not active, that is that it is not
       found in /proc/mounts, mkill will do exactly nothing.

OPTIONS

       -<SIG> Signals  can be specified either by name (e.g. -HUP, -SIGHUP) or by number (e.g. -1).

       -0     The special signal 0 force mkill to list all processes making the specified mount point busy.

       -u     Perform a lazy umount on the specified mount points before sending the signal SIGTERM or SIGKILL.

       -l     List all known signals.

EXAMPLES

       mkill -TERM /var

       This will terminate all processes accessing a seperate /var partition.

       mkill -HUP /dev/pts

       All processes using a pseudo-terminal slave will hangup.

RETURN VALUE

       Always success which is that zero is returned.

SEE ALSO

       fuser(1), proc(5), umount(8).

COPYRIGHT

       2008 Werner Fink, 2008 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Germany.

AUTHOR

       Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>

3rd Berkeley Distribution					   Jan 31, 2008 							  MKILL(8)