On 30 January 2012 21:26, Paul Simon <[email protected]> wrote: > I see from your note that it has not been answered yet. I have the same > problem with both Mandriva and Mageia but am not as advanced in Linux as you > are. Let's hope there is someone smarter than we are who can help us, and > then add the few lines of code so that we who still use floppies can > continue in our old ways. > > Paul Simon > "TJ" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >>A Gnome user brought this up on a.o.l.mageia and a.o.l.mandriva. The issue, >>apparently, affects both distros. Both of us are using the 32-bit Mageia 1. >>I can't speak for him, but here is my problem: >> >> I don't do it often at all, but what I'd like to be able to do is have >> Dolphin detect when I put a floppy in the drive and add that to the Places >> panel, just as it now does when I put a CD or DVD in one of those drives. >> As it is now, when I put a floppy in the drive, nothing happens. >> >> lsmod shows that the floppy module is present. My fstab shows this for the >> floppy: >> >>> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto >>> umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,exec,flush 0 0 >> >> I can't even seem to be able to mount it by hand. $ mount /media/floppy >> appears to work. At least, the drive spins and the busy LED comes on for a >> while, then goes off. But, nothing shows in /media/floppy, and if I give >> the mount command again without unmounting the drive, it still works. >> >> But, $ mount /media/floppy; mount /media/floppy results in these error >> messages: >> >>> mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /media/floppy busy >>> mount: according to mtab, /dev/fd0 is already mounted on /media/floppy >> >> But if I look at mtab, the floppy isn't there. And giving the mount >> command again, on a separate line, produces no errors. >> >> It's as if the drive is mounted, then unmounted almost immediately. Or as >> if the driver didn't allow enough time for the disk to be read before >> deciding it couldn't be mounted. >> >> BTW, Windows XP, on the same hardware and with the same floppy, has no >> problem with access. This is an old-style floppy drive, connected to the >> motherboard. It is not usb. >> Not smarter, but probably been around longer :-) So few people use floppies these days and I suspect that udev doesn't pick up the existence of the drive. What I'd try is to get a line into /etc/fstab to mount the drive at boot. You will need to keep a floppy in the drive, I think, so start by rebooting with a disk inserted, once you have your fstab sorted - you should find some help from a google search "linux floppy mount drive".
Once you have it working, make a spare floppy that is unimportant, to keep in the drive for bootup. Sheer guesswork, but I think that should fix it. You should be able to mount and umount the drive in dolphin, to allow you to change disks.
