what are you doing to mount the floppy?  Is there a floppy in the drive and if
so, is it a good floppy?

Typically it is (as root) mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy <- mount point in RH boxes

> Hmmmm, on my red hat 6.1 server, I get the following error when I try to
> mount the floppy:

> floppy0: probe failed
> 
> anyone ever have this problem?  found many people on the net who had this
> problem, but never found any solutions. Thanks in advance.

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