Sounds like the floppie went bad or for some reason your system is
recognizing the format of the floppy. I had a similar experience with my
boot floppy, all I did was umount the floppy and then remount it with no
tags. The mount command automatically mounts it as if it were an ext2 file
system. Supermount automatically mounts the floppy as if it were a vfat file
system and cdroms as if they were iso9660 systems. If none of this helps
then you may have to reformat the floppy. If that doesn't work then toss it
to the waste can because it got damaged somehow. I recently went through a
pile of old floppies and had to throw awya about 5 of them. Good luck.
SA
>From: vern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [expert] My floppy went away!
>Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 01:30:04 -0400
>
>Okay here goes, I don't see any difference!
>I issued the command supermount disable,
>do I have to go into /etc/fstab and edit out
>supermount?? In the command line I tried
>all the mount/umount /dev/fd0, /mnt/floppy
>still can't read the floppy. I did get an I/O
>error trying to enter the /mnt/floppy file.
>But none of the above ever activates the
>drive so it's not a media, or file system
>problem. Any ideas?
>Vern
>
>On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > Well, with that file (supermount enabled) mount /dev/fd0 is invalid,
> > but should also be unnecessary.
> >
> > With suprmount disabled, though, it should work.
> >
> > Maybe you could also post your /etc/fstab with supermount disabled as
> > well?
> >
> >
> > vern wrote:
> > >
> > > This is spooky! I no longer have the ability
> > > to read my floppy. It worked for almost 2 days
> > > after installing Mdk 7.0-2. I tried to mount the
> > > /dev/fd0 and got the reading not found in my
> > > fstab or mtab (see attached) looks like they are
> > > there to me. Any ideas? I've also tried supermount
> > > enable and disable no change.
> > > Thanks for reading this!
> > > Vern
> > > PS. The IDE CDROM works after I told it that it
> > > was a scis (scuzzy)! :-)
><< fstab >>
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