Floppy drive not responding.

[Karl F. Larsen]

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HermanAA wrote:
> my (newly added) floppy does not show up.
> Cannot mount drive ... seems to be the problem.
> The floppy drive is working under WINdows.
> 
> I must be doing something wrong in the setup.
> 
> my fstab : (bulk removed)
> 
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> # /dev/sda7
> UUID=30e9fe48-0445-caa3-7ca4-df11b4f31f5b none            swap    sw
> $
> /dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0
> 0
> /dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
> 
> 
> n0jn at bsw:~$ mount floppy0
> mount: can't find floppy0 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
> n0jn at bsw:~$ mount fd0
> mount: can't find fd0 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
> 
> n0jn at bsw:~$ mount /dev/fd0
> mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
> n0jn at bsw:~$ mount /media/floppy0
> mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
> n0jn at bsw:~$ 
> 
> n0jn at bsw:~$ umount floppy0
> umount: floppy0 is not mounted (according to mtab)
> n0jn at bsw:~$ 
> 
> 
> looking around:
> 
> ls -l /dev/f*
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root        13 2009-06-26 23:16 /dev/fd
> -> /proc/self/fd
> brw-rw----  1 root floppy  2,   0 2009-06-26 23:15 /dev/fd0
> brw-r-----  1 root disk    2,  84 2009-06-26 23:16 /dev/fd0u1040
> brw-r-----  1 root disk    2,  88 2009-06-26 23:16 /dev/fd0u1120
> brw-r-----  1 root disk    2,  28 2009-06-26 23:16 /dev/fd0u1440
> brw-r-----  1 root disk    2, 124 2009-06-26 23:16 /dev/fd0u1600
> brw-r-----  1 root disk    2,  44 2009-06-26 23:16 /dev/fd0u1680
> brw-r-----  1 root disk    2,  60 2009-06-26 23:16 /dev/fd0u1722
> brw-r-----  1 root disk    2,  76 2009-06-26 23:16 /dev/fd0u1743
> brw-r-----  1 root disk    2,  96 2009-06-26 23:16 /dev/fd0u1760
> brw-r-----  1 root disk    2, 116 2009-06-26 23:16 /dev/fd0u1840
> brw-r-----  1 root disk    2, 100 2009-06-26 23:16 /dev/fd0u1920
> brw-r-----  1 root disk    2,  12 2009-06-26 23:16 /dev/fd0u360
> brw-r-----  1 root disk    2,  16 2009-06-26 23:16 /dev/fd0u720
> brw-r-----  1 root disk    2, 120 2009-06-26 23:16 /dev/fd0u800
> brw-r-----  1 root disk    2,  52 2009-06-26 23:16 /dev/fd0u820
> brw-r-----  1 root disk    2,  68 2009-06-26 23:16 /dev/fd0u830
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root root    1,   7 2009-06-26 23:15 /dev/full
> crw-rw----+ 1 root fuse   10, 229 2009-06-26 23:15 /dev/fuse
> n0jn at bsw:~$ 
> 
> n0jn at bsw:~$ ls -l /media/
> total 12
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    6 2009-01-14 17:42 cdrom -> cdrom0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-01-14 17:42 cdrom0
> drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2009-03-06 10:46 disk
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-06-17 09:22 floppy0
> n0jn at bsw:~$ 
> 
> Where am I going wrong?
> 
> Herman in PHL
> 
> 
> 
	Please in a terminal type $ lspci and send to this list the listing
that seems to be a floppy drive. It is important that the kernel knows
you have one.

73 Karl


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
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