On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Patrick Dyer wrote:
> I need some help here. Linux will not mount my floppy.
> This is a new one . I had 120MB floppy drive before
> and it got damaged, it was working fine before I
> stupidly damaged the head. I got a new and installed
> it. When linux is booting it seem to recognize the
> drive. However, when I put a floppy disk in and try to
> mount I get the following error ,
>
> "Could not mount
> Error log:
>
> mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected,
> mounting read-only.
> mount:wrong fs type, bad option , bad superblock on
> /dev/fd0 or too many mounted file systems"
>
> Could someone help me.
>
Please post the section of your /etc/fstab which contains the
reference to the floppy drive so we can verify that you have it
configured correctly. Do you have the filesystem set to "auto" or do
you have a duplicate entry? If the latter is true, try removing the
extra line in your fstab.
John
