Floppy Disk Drive Error

How do I use the floppy disk drive? Fresh installation of 11.3 with KDE. When I try to use the floppy disk dive it does not work. Dolphin gives me this message:
“An error occurred while accessing ‘PC Floppy Drive’, the system responded: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device. Volume.AlreadyMounted Device /dev/fd0/is already mounted.”

When booted into GNOME and clicking on floppy in Dolphin the same error message is displayed but it causes a floppy icon to appear on the desktop which functions normally. This does not occur with KDE.

Could not find any resolution for it yet; the forum advice in the past was not much help. (Kfloppy utility has been installed.)

Hope someone who found a fix will post it here.

WillEllen