Re: Cannot mount floppy drive in Squeeze
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:56:47 -0800, Peter Easthope wrote:
> Bob, Camaleon, Dom, Stephen, Tom & others,
>
> I am replying to the last message I found in the thread. If there
> is one later, I didn't ignore it deliberately.
>
> * From: Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>
> * Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 22:21:13 -0500 (EST)
>> No, the data is intact, as the mounting of the image file with
>> the loop option confirms. Also, further experimentation seems
>> to suggest that if the floppy disk is physically mounted in the
>> floppy drive during boot, then I can logically mount it with the
>> mount command after boot. This really is looking like a bug.
>> I intend to file a bug report, but I'd like to do some more
>> trial-and-error experimentation before I do.
>
> This is relevant.
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=483781
>
> The best explanation appears to be cited by A.E. Patrakov in the bug report.
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.3/chapter08/fstab.html
> Scroll to the bottom of the page and read "Filesystems with MS-DOS ...".
>
> My encounter with this has been an attempt to make a bootable
> diskette for updating the BIOS on a Foxconn board. Did Foxconn
> have their filesystem mounted with UTF8 and the US codepage?
> If they used strictly ASCII filenames, are the encoding and
> codepage a concern?
>
> [Use MS or have more trouble than bargained for ... again!]
>
> Regards, ... Peter E.
First of all, I accidentally deleted your e-mail, and my MUA does not
allow me to edit the headers to add an "In-reply-to" header; so this
reply may not be properly connected to your thread in the archives.
Sorry about that.
Second, thank you for responding. Third, there was more to that original
thread. But I can't find it either. Maybe I accidentally replied
off-list? Anyway, the resolution to my original thread was udisks.
I run GNOME, and GNOME has a udisks daemon that tries to automatically
mount things like USB thumb drives, CD-ROM disks, and yes, floppy disks,
when they are inserted. I was able to work around the problem by using
the udisks command to mount and unmount floppy disks instead of the
native mount and umount commands.
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