I've had exactly the same problem.
It would appear that floppies can be a bit temperamental ! Certainly on both
Mandrake and Red Hat. On more than one occassion I've had to re-format the
floppy using Window$ before 'Linux' would recognise it.
Anyway, here's my /etc/fstab entry :
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0,user,sync,nodev,exec 0 0
to which I have added :
/dev/fd0 /mnt/disk vfat user,sync,nodev,exec,auto 0 0
to override supermount !!!
Regards
Owen
P.S. Does anyone know how to get music CD's to autoplay ?
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> Hi Cookers.
> This may be a newbie-type question, but I've had several friends experience
> it also, and it actually caused three of them to uninstall MDK 7.2 and use
> Debian, of all things. Of course I take in stride cause Linux is Linux.
> Anyway, here's the issue.
> My supermount seems to be malfunctioning. I used KDE's create new floppy
> device option, as well as create new cdrom device. I seem to have no problem
> with accessing cdroms, but whenever I put a floppy in and attempt access it
> either via the icon or by using konsole and just ls /mnt/floppy I am unable
> to use the floppy. The drive lights up and stays lit. In konsole I get an
> i/o error. In KDE I get a message that I do not have the rights to access
> this location. Now, I of course used the permissions checks in kde to give
> the owner and group full read/write perms. No change. I also went into fstab
> and tried fs=auto and fs=autofs with no change. It previously had fs=vfat. I
> tried fs=msdos, and said screw it and left it out, with no change in errors.
> Yes, I've tried different disks, and the drive is fine in dos/windows. I AM
> using a dos-formatted disk and it has approx. 400k of html on there. I tried
> linux disks also, with no change. I think perhaps the supermount util is
> bobo'ed on my computer.
> If anyone has any recommendations, lemme know. Even send me the obvious ones
> ("oh I bet he's tried this..) Send it.
> Failing this, can anyone give me a simple way of disabling supermount. I
> dont mind mounting the drive myself. At this point I would prefer it.
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> members.
> Thanks,
> Ravenhall
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