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+<article lang="&language;" id="floppy">
+<title>Floppy</title>
+<articleinfo>
+<authorgroup>
+<author>&Alexander.Neundorf; &Alexander.Neundorf.mail;</author>
+<!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS -->
+</authorgroup>
+</articleinfo>
+
+<para>
+The floppy ioslave gives you easy access to the floppy disk drives
+installed on your system.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The drive letter becomes the first subdirectory
+in the floppy &URL;. Let's say there is a file <filename>logo.png</filename> on your floppy
+disk in drive A, then the &URL; will be <userinput><command>floppy:</command><replaceable>/a/logo.png</replaceable></userinput>
+</para>
+
+<para>
+If you want to access drive B, <userinput><command>floppy:/b</command></userinput> will do it.
+<command>floppy:/</command> is a shortcut for <command>floppy:/a</command>.
+</para>
+
+<note><para>Note that <command>floppy:/logo.png</command> means you have a disk drive
+named <filename>logo.png</filename>.</para></note>
+
+<para>
+To use it you need to have the mtools package
+installed, and the floppy ioslave supports everything the various mtools
+command line utilities support. You don't have to mount your floppy disks,
+simply enter <userinput>floppy:/</userinput> in any &kde; 3.x app and you will be able to
+read from and write to your floppy drive.</para>
+
+<para>
+It also works with USB sticks, ZIP and JAZ drives.
+You can use <command>floppy:/u</command> for the USB stick and <command>floppy:/z</command> for the zip drive, for example.
+To make this work, you might need to adjust your <filename>/etc/mtools</filename> file. See the manpage
+for documentation.
+</para>
+
+<para>The ioslave gives read and write access to the floppy drive, but not
+simultaneously. While you can read and write to the floppy during the same
+session, reading and writing have to happen one after the other, not at the same
+time.</para>
+
+<para>Author: Alexander Neundorf <email>neundorf@kde.org</email></para>
+
+</article>
+