Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze
On 16/07/11 09:52, Tomas Kral wrote:
Hello list,
Just found out I cannot mount floppies in Squeeze.
I am on uptodate x86 kernel,
linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-35
$ su -c'mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0' # or
$ mount /floppy
Puts out in messages ...
[ 8744.146621] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT
filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
This is just an information message. Don't worry about it.
But no floppy is really mounted
Is there a floppy support in 2.6.32-5-686 at all?
In /boot/config-2.6.32-5-686
There is no floppy module set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=m
Yes, there is. Floppy drives are not (normally) IDE devices.
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m
Try "lsmod | grep floppy" to see if the floppy module is loaded. I suspect it is.
I had a similar problem, which was caused by udisks-daemon. What was happening was that I mounted
the floppy, and, almost immediately, udisks-daemon dismounted it. (I'm currently running Wheezy, but
believe this was the case in Squeeze too).
I'm sure there must be something I've overlooked, but I ended up stopping the daemon when I wanted
to use a floppy, and restarting it again afterwards.
Also noticed kernel boots with SCSI devices
/dev/sda.. /dev/sr..
But my hardware is IDE/ATAPI based.
Yes, the kernel drivers now treat most PATA/IDE controllers as SCSI now. Only really old systems
will need the legacy IDE drivers.
How do I enable IDE on Squeeze?
If your system is working ok with the SCSI devices, don't bother.
I've had to build a custom kernel for some of my old systems that *need* IDE support.
Regards
Dom
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