On 07/12/10 14:38, Dom wrote:
On 06/12/10 11:46, Dom wrote:On 06/12/10 11:34, Camaleón wrote:On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:27:48 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:09:52 -0500 (EST), Camaleón wrote:On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:07:20 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:Well, I'm not exactly a newbie. I've been using Linux for more than 10 years. But I must be doing something wrong. I can't seem to get a floppy disk to mount. ...Weird :-? I would try with the simplest command: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt If you get no error, run "mount" to ensure your floppy has been mounted. Also, check for "dmesg" output.No dice. I tried your suggested command, except that I changed /dev/fd0 to /dev/fd1, since I need the 5.25-inch drive, not the 3.5-inch drive, but other than that it was just as you suggested. No mount, no error message. The only output from dmesg is the original warning message: FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive! which also comes out on the terminal, since I am issuing the command from an active Linux virtual console, not a terminal emulation window in X.Strange, indeed. I would try to load the floppies in another computer, maybe they become damaged somehow :-? Also, to discard any problem with squeeze, you can test it under a livecd (by instance, in lenny, I don't get that "warning" about utf-8 charset when accessing my floppy disks). Greetings,I recently hit the same problem, but assumed it was just my system playing up. Using a USB floppy drive, I created a FAT floppy from an image file, but when I wanted to change some files on it, it wouldn't mount. Copying the floppy to a file using dd, then mounting with loop option worked. There were no read or write errors during any of these processes (except on one bad floppy I tried). I found the same problem with an ext2 formatted floppy. mount -v -t ext2 /dev/sdb /media/floppy returns success, but nothing is mounted. I just tried partitioning the floppy with cfdisk, then creating an ext2 filesystem on /dev/sdb1. This mounted without a problem. I suspect this is a bug. DomFollowing up to myself, after further testing. I only get this behaviour on one of my systems, all the others seem to handle mounting floppies fine. With a little bit of investigation, and the aid of strace, I now believe that the mount command *is* working correctly and mounting the floppy - then, almost instantly, something is unmounting it again. At first I thought it might be because my laptop has Gnome installed and the other machine I tested it on didn't, but I have since tried on another system with Gnome and that one is fine too. I shall keep investigating and maybe try cloning my laptop onto another machine with a non-USB drive. Dom
Found the culprit. It's udisks-daemon and appears to be this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=592719 "udisks prevents mounting of floppy disks". Killing the udisks-daemon enabled mounting of the drive.However, I suspect this is a different problem to the one the OP is getting, as this only affects USB floppy drives, not "normal" ones.
Dom