Mounting floppy drive problems

joel jijoel at lava.net
Tue Sep 4 11:42:30 PDT 2001


Hmmmmm....

Hate to ask an obvious question, but are the floppies formatted (in a DOS 
format)? Can you read them in Windows?

(I have this problem periodically because I do some work with Macs, so a lot 
of the disks I have around are formatted for Macintosh...)

--Joel

On Tuesday 04 September 2001 08:31 am, beesond001 at hawaii.rr.com wrote:
> Aloha all,
>
> 	I'm having some difficulty mounting the floppy drive on my Red Hat box.
> I am having these troubles with all of my floppy disks, I've tried at
> least a dozen disks, so I don't think they are all bad.  I get the
> following errors when I try to mount a floppy disk.
> [root at a24b94n83client89 /etc]#  mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many
> mounted file systems
> [root at a24b94n83client89 /etc]#  mount -v -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many
> mounted file systems
> [root at a24b94n83client89 /etc]#
>
> When I try to use the KDE floppy tool, I get an error stating:
> 	Could not mount.
> 	Error log: file:
> /dev/fd0%3A%20Input/output%20error%0Amount%...system%20type,%20and%20non
> e%20was%20specified%0A
> (I think that the "%#X" stuff are artifacts from html, but the words may
> have meaning.)  I get these errors whether I log in as root or myself.
>
> 	Just for grins, my /etc/fstab file is here:
> /dev/sda2               /                       ext2    defaults        1
> 1
> /dev/sda1               /boot                   ext2    defaults        1
> 2
> /dev/sdb2               /home                   ext2    defaults        1
> 2
> /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660
> user,exec,dev,suid,ro,noauto 0 0
> /dev/sdb1               /usr                    ext2    defaults        1
> 2
> /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,user     0
> 0
> none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0
> 0
> none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0
> 0
> /dev/sdb3               swap                    swap    defaults        0
> 0
> /dev/sda3               swap                    swap    defaults        0
> 0
>
> My /etc/filesystems is here:
>
> ext2
> nodev proc
> nodev devpts
> iso9660
> msdos
> vfat
>
>
> My /etc/mtab is here:
> /dev/sda2 / ext2 rw 0 0
> none /proc proc rw 0 0
> /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 rw 0 0
> /dev/sdb2 /home ext2 rw 0 0
> /dev/sdb1 /usr ext2 rw 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> automount(pid400) /misc autofs rw,fd=5,pgrp=400,minproto=2,maxproto=3 0 0
> /etc/mtab (END)
> And one last thought just occurred to me, here is what ls -l /dev/fd*
> returns:
> [ben at a24b94n83client89 ben]$ ls -l /dev/fd*
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           15 May  5 20:32 /dev/fd ->
> ../proc/self/fd
> brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,   0 May  5  1998 /dev/fd0
> brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  12 May  5  1998 /dev/fd0D360
> brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  16 May  5  1998 /dev/fd0D720
> brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  28 May  5  1998 /dev/fd0H1440
> brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  12 May  5  1998 /dev/fd0H360
> brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  16 May  5  1998 /dev/fd0H720
> brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,   4 May  5  1998 /dev/fd0d360
> brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,   8 May  5  1998 /dev/fd0h1200
> brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  20 May  5  1998 /dev/fd0h360
> brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  24 May  5  1998 /dev/fd0h720
> brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,   1 May  5  1998 /dev/fd1
> brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  13 May  5  1998 /dev/fd1D360
> brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  17 May  5  1998 /dev/fd1D720
> brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  29 May  5  1998 /dev/fd1H1440
> brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  13 May  5  1998 /dev/fd1H360
> brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  17 May  5  1998 /dev/fd1H720
> brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,   5 May  5  1998 /dev/fd1d360
> brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,   9 May  5  1998 /dev/fd1h1200
> brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  21 May  5  1998 /dev/fd1h360
> brw-rw----    1 ben      floppy     2,  25 May  5  1998 /dev/fd1h720
> [ben at a24b94n83client89 ben]$
>
> So, is the ownership of the device files set correctly?  If not, who
> should own these devices?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ben Beeson
>
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