steef wrote:
Greg Folkert wrote:
Caveat, I haven't truly followed this thread, so I may have missed some
pertinent info.
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 16:22 +0000, steef wrote:
Do you have a device /dev/fd0?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo mount /dev/fdo -t vfat,ext3 /media/floppy
mount: special device /dev/fdo does not exist
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
/dev/fd0 (eff-dee-zero)
not /dev/fdo (eff-dee-ohh)
Also, there is a bit of a problem, "mount" typically does not like
multiple "-t" arguments, though it is possible to use it. Auto is a
better option as it will try all the "loaded" known file systems.
So let us make sure everything is good. And steer clear of the
auto-magical stuff that is supposed to work:
sudo mkdir /media/fd0
sudo modprobe floppy
sudo modprobe vfat
sudo mount /dev/fd0 -t auto /media/fd0
If that works, then we have to look a bit more.
What does # dmesg | grep fd show?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg | grep fd
[snippage of non-relevant stuff]
the 0xfd0blah is the hex address stuff and not even related to the
floppy.
I want to make sure that this floppy is a "traditional floppy" meaning
that it is indeed plugged into the motherboard with a 48 pin(maybe more)
flat ribbon cable (with 25+ years of legacy built-in), and not an
internal or external USB floppy.
Also, we are sure that this floppy does work... as I have been seeing
more and more "new floppy drives" just puke and not work after a few
years of "intermittent/once-in-a-blue-moon" service. The old Teac single
speed drives I have, still work after 15 years of being swapped around
forever.
Cheers.
thanks greg.
it is a traditional floppy-drive that worked for me year after year
after year....
and yes: it is plugged into the motherboard etc. etc. no. it is not
that new-modish s.... that i do not like at all.
i agree the mount command is the most relevant info in my message you
answered. and, shame, shame on me. i am becomning an old, mean and
now too sloppy debian-user. forgive me.
i'll check it all [partly] again and let you know, if there is some
enlightenment.
regards,
steef
regards,
steef
hello greg,
i took no chances: installed on an old hd etch &&. just from scratch as
i use to do. installed the ralink-chip into the standard-kernel. 'made'
/media/fd0
so far so good.
booted the machine. no soap TILL I DID <sudo modprobe floppy>
that command did the trick. i seem to have to repeat this
module-probe/install after each reboot, but that does not matter for me.
i am glad my to get old teac-hardware get working again.
thanks again for your succesfull help. gonna buy you a bottle of
graanjenever (very old dutch gin made from wheat and drank ice-cold)
cheers,
steef
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