Well, what does 'ls -al /dev/fd*' show?
What appears in /var/log/messages when you mount the drive?
-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Slooten [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 9:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] 8.1 ~ Floppy not working
Hehe, thanks for the wise-ass comment... but that's not the problem
:-)
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, mik wrote:
> there needs to be a floppy in your drive.
>
> mik
>
> On Monday 01 October 2001 22:48, you wrote:
> > Well, I decided to reinstall, as I could not figure out what the
problem
> > is, but even after a fresh install, my floppy drive does not
work :-/
> > Hasn't anyone has this problem yet?
> >
> > Whan I try mound the floppy, it just tells me it was unable to
mount the
> > floppy drive, and when I click details, : mount: /dev/fd0:
unknown device.
> >
> > Trying it in the shell does not work either:
> > mount /mnt/floppy/
> > mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device
> >
> > I try the other floppy devices, but this has to be the one I
need, as it's
> > just a standard 1044 floppy drive.
> >
> > I have for the sake of it re-reformatted my harddrive, this time
without
> > connecting my new Logitech USB mouse, leaving my computer the
way it has
> > always been, and still it didn't work :-(
> >
> > Maybe someone knows, or can explain just how this new system
works with
> > 8.1?
> >
> > Not that this is urgent today, but will be in the near future
for me, so
> > again, any info would be appreciated. Can the rest of you using
mandrake
> > 8.1 connect to your floppies?
> >
> > Greetings
> > Ralph
> >
> > On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Ralph Slooten wrote:
> > > Could someone please help me here? I have just installed
Linux-Mandrake
> > > 8.1, and everything works great, except for my floppy drive
:-/ I have
> > > used Redhat, LM 7.0, 7.1, 8.0, and they have never given any
problems
> > > regarding the floppy drive.
> > >
> > > I read on the mandrake site that 8.1 uses some new method to
> > > automatically configure devices, but I just can't work it all
out.
> > >
> > > When I try mount the floppy to any of the floppy devices, I
get : unknown
> > > device.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions are welcome :-)
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > >
> > > Ralph
>
>
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