Hello,
man I make a mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy -t msdos every thing seems OK (no complain), but it is just not mounted: df does not show it and I can redo the command again and again!
mformat A: works fine!
Thank for your help.
On 03/28/2012 11:14 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
Hello,
man I make a mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy -t msdos every thing seems OK (no complain), but it is just not mounted: df does not show it and I can redo the command again and again!
mformat A: works fine!
Thank for your help.
Is this floppy formatted with a DOS FAT partition? You can't mount it if there's no file system.
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Mark LaPierre wrote:
On 03/28/2012 11:14 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
Hello,
man I make a mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy -t msdos every thing seems OK (no complain), but it is just not mounted: df does not show it and I can redo the command again and again!
mformat A: works fine!
Thank for your help.
Is this floppy formatted with a DOS FAT partition? You can't mount it if there's no file system.
Yes it is a msdos formatted flopyy. Thus, I cannot mount it?
thank.
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 03/28/2012 03:50 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
Yes it is a msdos formatted flopyy. Thus, I cannot mount it?
What error message do you get when you try?
Just no message. no error, but the floppy is not mounted!
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
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? - do you have the floppy kernel module loaded? - did you check the output of ls -l /dev/fd*? Does it look ok? - is /mnt/floppy ok? Do you have the proper rights to access it? - 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
On 3/28/2012 4:18 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 03/28/2012 04:07 PM, Patrick Lists wrote:
No idea if it makes any difference but I always did:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
Yes, that's right. Checking the man page, that's the right way to format the command. And, of course, /mnt/floppy must already exist.
My memory is that on either F13 or F14, I was unable to get my floppys to be recognized no matter what I did and there were some existing bugs out on such. I never saw a resolution posted and have assumed that "it ain't going to happen"
Paul
On 03/29/2012 02:04 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
On 3/28/2012 4:18 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 03/28/2012 04:07 PM, Patrick Lists wrote:
No idea if it makes any difference but I always did:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
Yes, that's right. Checking the man page, that's the right way to format the command. And, of course, /mnt/floppy must already exist.
My memory is that on either F13 or F14, I was unable to get my floppys to be recognized no matter what I did and there were some existing bugs out on such. I never saw a resolution posted and have assumed that "it ain't going to happen"
In that case maybe you can try a CentOS 6 Live CD/DVD and see if it can read the floppy. Maybe parts of it are old enough to still appreciate that floppy.
Regards, Patrick
On 3/28/2012 5:24 PM, Patrick Lists wrote:
On 03/29/2012 02:04 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
On 3/28/2012 4:18 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 03/28/2012 04:07 PM, Patrick Lists wrote:
No idea if it makes any difference but I always did:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
Yes, that's right. Checking the man page, that's the right way to format the command. And, of course, /mnt/floppy must already exist.
My memory is that on either F13 or F14, I was unable to get my floppys to be recognized no matter what I did and there were some existing bugs out on such. I never saw a resolution posted and have assumed that "it ain't going to happen"
In that case maybe you can try a CentOS 6 Live CD/DVD and see if it can read the floppy. Maybe parts of it are old enough to still appreciate that floppy.
Regards, Patrick
Patrick:
Thanks for the suggestion. My solution was get all material on floppys onto CD/DVD and put the floppy drive in the same closet as the 8-track tape player (smile)
Paul
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
My memory is that on either F13 or F14, I was unable to get my floppys to be recognized no matter what I did and there were some existing bugs out on such. I never saw a resolution posted and have assumed that "it ain't going to happen"
From FC3 to F14 my floppies were mounted automatically.
There was a while with F14 that they would not mount. Don't know why. With F15, I had to [root@localhost dev]# modprobe floppy to mount a floppy and I had to do it by hand.
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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