I must be a unix, I got no disk!

[Rick Pepping]

I still can't find my floppy.  Multiple install and re-installs of the 
YDL 2.3 home/office package into a 4 GB partition all give the same 
result.  Listing the /etc/fstab shows all of my devices except the 
floppy drive. Attemps at mount /mnt/floppy, mount /mnt/fd0, mount 
floppy, cd fd0, and on and on give messages that say I have no floppy 
drive.  The result is the same both with the disk in and disk out. One 
exception is that, with the floppy in, I can do eject fd0 and the drive 
will eject the disk.  

All this is happening on my old beige G3 Mac.  It has 2 HDs.  Bus 0 is 
an ATA (Quantum) 6 GB drive partitioned as 2 GB for the Mac OS8.6, 4 GB 
for YDL .  Bus 1 has the CDROM and internal Zip100 on it, also showing 
as ATA in the profiler.  I have a SCSI bus 0 with an 8 GB HD partitioned 
into 4 Mac partitions for all of my Mac applications and files. (My SCSI 
chain of external drives is disconnected from the Mac)  The last item in 
the profiler list is the floppy with no details provided.  The floppy 
drive works just fine under MacOS.

This is a stand-alone home machine.  Floppy disks are the only means I 
have to move files between home and work.  I am at wit's end.  I'll try 
anything!  F'rinstance, there is a long list of options to 
select/deselect in the custom installation.  None have descriptions of 
what is being turned on or off with  the check boxes.  Does anybody know 
if any of these turns the floppy on/off?

Thanks- Rick Pepping

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