floppy

[Patrick Dupre]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Patrick Lists wrote:

> On 03/29/2012 12:50 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>
>> Yes it is a msdos formatted flopyy.
>> Thus, I cannot mount it?
>
> No idea if it makes any difference but I always did:
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
Same thing
>
> If that does not help, some suggestions for a couple of things to check:
>
> - is it supposed to be /dev/fd0? Did you check in /var/log/messages
>   could it be /dev/fd or /dev/fd1 or something else?
Mar 28 15:48:45 eschyle kernel: [1361320.794218] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 
1.44M

> - do you have the floppy kernel module loaded?
lsmod |grep floppy
floppy                 46307  0

> - did you check the output of ls -l /dev/fd*? Does it look ok?
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root       13 Mar 12 20:42 /dev/fd -> /proc/self/fd
brwxrwxrwx. 1 root floppy 2,   0 Mar 28 19:55 /dev/fd0
brw-rw----. 1 root floppy 2,  84 Mar 28 15:48 /dev/fd0u1040
brw-rw----. 1 root floppy 2,  88 Mar 28 15:48 /dev/fd0u1120
brw-rw----. 1 root floppy 2,  28 Mar 28 15:48 /dev/fd0u1440

> - is /mnt/floppy ok? Do you have the proper rights to access it?
  ls -l  /mnt/
total 28
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Nov 11  2010 backup
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Nov 11  2010 backup2
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Dec 11 21:40 cdrom
drwxrwxrwx. 2 root root 4096 Mar 28 15:58 floppy

> - if all else fails, blame SELinux for keeping you safe from those
>   pesky floppy viruses and temporarily do setenforce 0 and try again
>
> Regards,
> Patrick
>

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