Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze
On 7/18/2011 1:39 PM, Tomas Kral wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 11:42 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> On 7/16/2011 3:52 AM, Tomas Kral wrote:
>>
>>> linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-35
>>>
>>> $ su -c'mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0' # or
>>> $ mount /floppy
>>
>>> [ 8744.146621] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT
>>> filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
>>>
>>> But no floppy is really mounted
>>
>>> 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
>>
>> Is this a standard floppy interface drive or an IDE floppy?
>
> I think it is an IDE floppy, it has got a ribbon cable attaching it to
> the main board.
Both use ribbons. If it's 34 pin it's old standard floppy interface.
If it's 40 pin it's IDE.
--
Stan
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