Re: Mounting a floppy drive

[ivan <ivan@freddie.vianet.net.au>]

try mounting fd0 without specifying filesystem type.  IIRC, the filesystem
will be autodetected.

If it is a win95/98 floppy you *may* need to specify filesystem vfat rather
than msdos.  I'm not sure on this one.

Ivan.

At 04:53 AM 2/14/99 GMT, Malcolm Miles wrote:
>On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 20:17:08 PST, you wrote:
>
>>When I tried to mount my floppy drive using:
>>mount -t msdod /dev/fd0 /a
>>I got these messages:
>>end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
>>mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
>
>Similar thing here:
>
>end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
>mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
>end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
>end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
>end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
>FAT bread failed
>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on dev/fd0, or too many
mounted file syste,s
>end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
>
>Any ideas?
>
>mgm
>
>
>
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