--- D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1087 pts/1D 0:00 mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
Try file -s /dev/fd0 and see what it says. If that hangs your system
then there probably is a hardware problem. Cant imagine any thing new
has happened in Floppy drive
Hi All,
Here is the output from various commands.
The /etc/fstab file. The mount process just hangs.
Could someone throw some light on this, I am trying
to mount a FAT floppy.
Mine is a RedHat 7.2 system, but I am using ext3 file
system for /. I had converted to ext3fs from ext2fs
more than
--- D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a peculiar problem, my floppies or CDs do not mount.
The mount command hangs. Nor does it mount through the GUI.
It used to earlier, this problem is since I changed some
settings in /etc/fstab for the FAT filesystems (Previous
]: Floppies and CDs do not mount
--snip
Could it be that your floppy and CDROM drive are
failing, being old, and need repairs? Are they being
recognised at the time of boot? Pl check.
--narsingh
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--- D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The drives are OK
and work perfectly under Win98.
I forgot to get the /etc/fstab file. In fact the
mount
process is shown when I do a ps -ax. And it is there
indefinitely.
Can't even kill it with kill -9. I think, I will get
the
I even tried it without using fstab settings.
mount -tvfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
Is there some problem if I give this command.
This is what is in the man pages
I think there should be a gap '-t' and 'vfat' in the
command. Like 'mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy'. I
hope the
