Douglas Tutty wrote:
> If you look in your /etc/fstab for the entry under floppy, you'll
> probably see something like:
>
> /dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
>
> Its the 'auto' that's the problem.
>
> Try mounting it manually to determine what types to put
> here.
>
You mean like:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> sudo mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 mnt
FAT: invalid media value (0xf6)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev fd0.
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> dmesg | tail
floppy0: data CRC error: track 3, head 0, sector 5, size 2
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 112
floppy0: data CRC error: track 3, head 0, sector 14, size 2
floppy0: data CRC error: track 3, head 0, sector 14, size 2
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 121
floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 3, size 2
floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 3, size 2
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 2
FAT: invalid media value (0xf6)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev fd0.
Granted, I only tried on three floppies, on two different machines, but
one of the floppies was then taken to a Windows machine where it worked
fine.
It could be that both of my floppy drives have died since I last used
floppies, but that seems a mite suspicious.
I plan on trying these floppies on another couple of Debian boxes at
work tomorrow.
And I think I'll boot up this machine from Knoppix and see how it
handles these floppies. More info later ....
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Kent West
Westing Peacefully <http://kentwest.blogspot.com>
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