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| Author: | smheoc [ Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Unable to Mount Floppy Drive - Please Help |
Ok, I'm setting myself up for some serious flaming, but hopefully someone will be able to help me out (and yes . . . I did do some searching first!!!) I am trying to mount the floppy drive so I can get some data off an old disk. I have tried: 1) #mount /mnt/floppy (can't find /mnt/floppy in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab) 2) #mkdir /mnt/floppy #mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy (mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device) For the record I am running Knoppmyth R5A15.1 |
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| Author: | tjc [ Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:00 pm ] |
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Do an: Code: ls /dev/fd*
You probably want: "/dev/fd0u1440" I just went through this trying to create a FreeDOS boot disk with the Award Flash utility and an updated BIOS image on it. I seem to remember a time when Linux auto-detected the format of a floppy disk... 
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| Author: | smheoc [ Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:10 pm ] |
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Thanks for the quick reply. I gave that whirl but alas it did not work. There are a number of fd*'s, how would I know which one to use? For the record I get same error as before. |
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| Author: | tjc [ Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:21 pm ] |
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The numeric part correspond to formatted size, so a standard 3.5" DS/DD 1.44Mb diskette would be /dev/fd0u1440 as I understand it. If there is another 1440 option try that... |
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| Author: | Xsecrets [ Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:00 pm ] |
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when did this come about? what happened to the old trusty /dev/fd0 ? |
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| Author: | cesman [ Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:07 pm ] |
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It has been like that for a while... /dev/fd0 just linked to it. |
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| Author: | mjl [ Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Floppy Drive |
Hi, Being basicly conservative on the energy, (lazy) I simply made the fstab happy:) It shows me the floppy is at /floppy. /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0 as root, mkdir /floppy now you can mount /floppy besure to umount /floppy when done so files are closed properly before removing disk. Hope this helps Mike |
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| Author: | tjc [ Sat Jul 09, 2005 11:54 am ] |
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Even better! 
Sorry, I was answering that without access to my KnoppMyth machine and working from memory and examples on a Mandrake based workstation... |
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| Author: | smheoc [ Sat Jul 09, 2005 7:46 pm ] |
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Once again, thanks for the help. I've tried them all, but still no success. Luckily my wife found the file she was looking for on the harddrive, but I will have to address this problem soon. For the record, this is what I see when I type #mount /dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) none on /proc type proc (rw,nodiratime) /dev/hda3 on /cache type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda4 on /myth type ext3 (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) From root I did the following: #mkdir /floppy #mount /floppy and got this message again: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device |
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| Author: | tjc [ Sun Jul 10, 2005 10:54 am ] |
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First add the line the mjl described above to your /etc/fstab if it isn't already there: Code: /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0 Second make sure you have a corresponding device entry: Code: root@black2:~# ls -al /dev/fd0
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 May 7 2004 /dev/fd0 If it's missing you'll have to recreate it, but that gets "interesting" because of all the aliases. |
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| Author: | mjl [ Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Missed this line |
Hi, This is for smheoc "mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device" I must have been asleep that day and missed that line  Normally that error message occurs if you try to mount the floppy and there isn't a floppy in the drive... You should have no trouble using a standard dos / windows formatted floppy.
Try again. and look for the simple solutions first. Thanks Mike |
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