Floppy drive issues with the finale Breezy

[Martin Reid]

I have an old athlon 1200 which is also getting a bit long in the tooth,
but I need access to my floppy drive as well. To solve the problem I
added a new menu item entitled "Floppy"(that was inventive, wasn't it!)
with the command "pmount /dev/fd0" Now I can insert a floppy in the
drive, click on this new menu item, and I get a floppy icon on the
desktop and access to my files. Right click and choose unmount and the
icon disappears like magic. Perhaps it'll work for you as well.

Martin

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 12:50 -0400, 'Forum Post wrote:
> paddyg Wrote: 
> > This bug has already been reported as bug # 17562, and eveything seems
> > to have been put down to pmount-hal. On Oct 18 Martin Pitt posted a
> > Fixed Upstream comment. In the meantime let's mount our floppies
> > manually with a launcher and a pmount /dev/fd0 command.
> OK, pmount dev/fd0 doesn't work, neither does variation using floppy
> instd fd. I tried pmount  AND mount  /media/fd   and /fd0   and /floppy
> and /floppy0. Nothing will mount my floppy, and I've tried it with
> different floppies inserted. This is an older Legacy floppy by the way
> in an old deskpro Compaq. 450mhz PII 64 meg RAM system. I got the cdrom
> working and everything else seems to work now. I just can't get the #@%#
> &%@# *&%$ floppy drive to work! :mad:  What ya think, drive checks out
> ok, it works! Think I should go to Flash media or a zip? As a temporary
> solution, I've set up a virtual storage on the internet using a sealed
> yahoo group. I'd like to be able to store onsite though, less risk that
> way! The error mssg I get is can't mount media...........More info: file
> type not specified . I've tried in terminal. What am I missing here,
> help a newb, please!
> 
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