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Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze



On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Tomas Kral <thomas.kral@email.cz> wrote:
>
> 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!
>
> But no floppy is really mounted
> $ df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda8              3818640   3431832   1162828  76% /
> tmpfs                   123336         0    123336   0% /lib/init/rw
> udev                    118924       180    118744   1% /dev
> tmpfs                   123336         0    123336   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sr1                663552    663552         0 100% /media/cdrom1
>
> as it should as per fstab
> $ cat /etc/fstab | grep floppy
> /dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
>
> 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
> ....
> #
> # Please see Documentation/ide/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives
> #
> CONFIG_IDE_XFER_MODE=y
> CONFIG_IDE_ATAPI=y
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA is not set
> CONFIG_IDE_GD=m
> CONFIG_IDE_GD_ATA=y
> CONFIG_IDE_GD_ATAPI=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECS=m
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DELKIN=m
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=m
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD_VERBOSE_ERRORS=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE=m
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEACPI is not set
> # CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL is not set
> CONFIG_IDE_PROC_FS=y

man udisks


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