Mounting floppy drive problems

[beesond001 at hawaii.rr.com]

Aloha all,

	I'm having some difficulty mounting the floppy drive on my Red Hat box.  
I am having these troubles with all of my floppy disks, I've tried at 
least a dozen disks, so I don't think they are all bad.  I get the 
following errors when I try to mount a floppy disk.
[root at a24b94n83client89 /etc]#  mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many 
mounted file systems
[root at a24b94n83client89 /etc]#  mount -v -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many 
mounted file systems
[root at a24b94n83client89 /etc]#   

When I try to use the KDE floppy tool, I get an error stating:  
	Could not mount.
	Error log: file: 
/dev/fd0%3A%20Input/output%20error%0Amount%...system%20type,%20and%20non
e%20was%20specified%0A
(I think that the "%#X" stuff are artifacts from html, but the words may 
have meaning.)  I get these errors whether I log in as root or myself.

	Just for grins, my /etc/fstab file is here: 
/dev/sda2               /                       ext2    defaults        1 
1
/dev/sda1               /boot                   ext2    defaults        1 
2
/dev/sdb2               /home                   ext2    defaults        1 
2
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 
user,exec,dev,suid,ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/sdb1               /usr                    ext2    defaults        1 
2
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,user     0 
0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 
0
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 
0
/dev/sdb3               swap                    swap    defaults        0 
0
/dev/sda3               swap                    swap    defaults        0 
0

My /etc/filesystems is here:
 
ext2
nodev proc
nodev devpts
iso9660
msdos
vfat                                                                      
         
	
My /etc/mtab is here:
/dev/sda2 / ext2 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /home ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /usr ext2 rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
automount(pid400) /misc autofs rw,fd=5,pgrp=400,minproto=2,maxproto=3 0 0
/etc/mtab (END)
And one last thought just occurred to me, here is what ls -l /dev/fd* 
returns:
[ben at a24b94n83client89 ben]$ ls -l /dev/fd*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           15 May  5 20:32 /dev/fd -> 
../proc/self/fd
brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,   0 May  5  1998 /dev/fd0
brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  12 May  5  1998 /dev/fd0D360
brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  16 May  5  1998 /dev/fd0D720
brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  28 May  5  1998 /dev/fd0H1440
brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  12 May  5  1998 /dev/fd0H360
brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  16 May  5  1998 /dev/fd0H720
brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,   4 May  5  1998 /dev/fd0d360
brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,   8 May  5  1998 /dev/fd0h1200
brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  20 May  5  1998 /dev/fd0h360
brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  24 May  5  1998 /dev/fd0h720
brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,   1 May  5  1998 /dev/fd1
brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  13 May  5  1998 /dev/fd1D360
brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  17 May  5  1998 /dev/fd1D720
brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  29 May  5  1998 /dev/fd1H1440
brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  13 May  5  1998 /dev/fd1H360
brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  17 May  5  1998 /dev/fd1H720
brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,   5 May  5  1998 /dev/fd1d360
brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,   9 May  5  1998 /dev/fd1h1200
brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  21 May  5  1998 /dev/fd1h360
brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  25 May  5  1998 /dev/fd1h720
[ben at a24b94n83client89 ben]$   

So, is the ownership of the device files set correctly?  If not, who 
should own these devices?  

Thanks in advance,
Ben Beeson