Re: Floppydrive won't work
Hi,
did you have a floppy in the drive? If so, maybe a floppy is not supported
by your kernel. Or you have to load a module (the driver).
type
dmesg | grep -i floppy
and check whether there is a line about floppies. On my system, the output
reads
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
hdb: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
The first line tells me that the system recognises a floppy drive.
If that is not the case for you, check the directory of your kernel
modules,
ls /usr/lib/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/block
to see whether you have something like floppy.ko or floppy.o in there.
If so, type
modprobe floppy
(without the .o or .ko suffix).
type
dmesg
to see whether you now have a line about floppies. Then you are done and
should be able do mount.
Otherwise I am afraid I could not help
Tim
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On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote:
> When I try 'mount /dev/fd0' I get this message
>
> vegard@hjem:~$ mount /dev/fd0
> /dev/fd0: Not valid argument <-translated from norwegian,
> actual phrase: 'Ugyldig argument'
> mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified
>
> This is the line from /etc/fstab
>
> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto rw,noauto,user,sync 0 0
>
>
> wich i copyed from the example of using fstab found in tuxfiles.org. I do
> not know excactly wich device it is (/dev/fd???). Does anybody see what is
> wrong?
>
> --
> System info:
> Debian Sarge GNU/Linux
> Kernel Image 2.4.27-1-386
>
> Cheers, Vegard
>
>
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