> > One thing that has always surprised me on Linux is that there doesn't seem > to be any automatic mount/umount handling of floppy drives (DOS format). > > I guess I'm thinking of something similar to the pcmcia card manager that > detects insert/remove events and automatically loads and unloads drivers. > > Perhaps there is and I missed it? > > /etc/fstab: > /dev/fd0 /dosa msdos user,noauto > > I mount with: mount /dosa > > If I pop out the floppy and put in another, "ls" still shows the contents > of the first floppy. > > Having to umount/mount for every floppy gets tedious! Is there some > feature that I don't know about to help with this? > > I just switched from WABI to Wine for running Quicken. WABI accessed the > floppy device directly and didn't need any external help. With > Wine/Quicken, I have to do the mount/umount each time. Quicken2000 backup > files don't fit on one floppy. I'm new to wine and not very trusting > yet so I backup my work every 10 or 20 minutes. > > ...RickM... >
You could use the mtools. They provide programs to handle dos floppies, like mcopy, mdir... With those you don't need to mount/unmount. But I don't know whether it works in your specific (wine/quicken) case, as I don't have any experience with those. Jo
