To enter the BIOS, you have to watch your screen when you turn on your machine. It will display, press F2 or DEL to enter BIOS.

In most cases, it is DEL (the small key under INSERT) – press it several times when you see the message “Press xyz to enter BIOS Setup”. Then you should see your BIOS. But beware, wrong settings might damage your system or make it unusable – but as long as you don´t play around in parts other than the General Settings (Floppy drive) – it should be okay.

Google for BIOS settings for your board or your BIOS (AMIBios, Award whatever) –
should look like this:
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/staff/nicoocz/guides/965%20Guide/P965-S-1.JPG

If the floppy wasn´t added by yourself and the computer is a stock machine, then it is very likely that it is enabled already.

on running sudo lshw:
found iDE:
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*-ide
description: IDE interface
product: 5513 [IDE]
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 2.5
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.5
logical name: scsi0
logical name: scsi1
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: ide bus_master emulated
configuration: driver=pata_sis latency=128 module=pata_sis

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and, for “dmesg | grep floppy” ,nothing returned…

how do i check if it’s in BIOS? (i switched this op sys from windows to linux, no partition…)

thanks so much…

Looks like that your floppy is either not correctly detected or not /dev/fd0.

To find out, what device the floppy is or to determine, if the floppy is detected, run:
sudo lshw

which will present you a list of hardware in your computer – so you have to scroll for your floppy.

And do a:
dmesg | grep floppy

Although these instructions are super clear, and I’ve followed them, and Ryan had good results, but, alas, I still cannot get my system to acknowledge the floppy drive. I’m hoping there is something else I can check.

enter: gksudo gedit /etc/modules
# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with “#” are ignored.

fuse
lp
floppy
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enter:gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=1021fa6c-28ee-421c-8377-768bbd688f01 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=1d818b3b-a339-4c22-b8fc-ea952b0bd65b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
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enter: sudo mkdir /media/floppy
mkdir: cannot create directory `/media/floppy’: File exists
kristin@kristin-desktop:~$
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enter: sudo mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
mount: special device /dev/fd0 does not exist << /proc/self/fd/2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2009-03-29 19:54 stdin -> /proc/self/fd/0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2009-03-29 19:54 stdout -> /proc/self/fd/1
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I have re-booted several times (soft & hard boot), but still no floppy drive…

help!? Is the “special device /dev/fd0 does not exist” error because the “/dev/fd0″ is not the right location? .Is there anything else I can check in the logs for errors?

Thanks