Mounting floppy drive problems

[beesond001 at hawaii.rr.com]

Aloha all and Joel,
	
	It turns out I had two problems.  The minor filesystem type should be 
"2" not "0", and the floppy drive itself was broken.  All better now...

Thanks,
Ben  

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 9/4/01, 8:42:30 AM, joel <jijoel at lava.net> wrote regarding [luau] Re: 
Mounting floppy drive problems:


> 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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