On 03/11/2010 18:58, David Bowskill wrote: > Hello All > I was cleaning up when I came across some old floppies with stuff I > wished to read. > > Ubuntu 10.04 would not mount the floppy although the drive light cam on > for a short while and the drive 'clicked'. > > The file /etc/fstab includes the following entry: > > /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 > 0 0 > > when issuing the command: > > mount /dev/fd0 > > the drive clicks and the terminal reports :- > > mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only > > Then examining the file /etc/mtab, it shows no entry for the floppy. > > Issuing the command umount /etc/fd0 the terminal reports:- > > umount: /dev/fd0 is not mounted (according to mtab) > > I cannot read the floppy - it is not mounted although it was reported as > being so. > > Any ideas ?? > > Thanks > David >
Yes. A known problem but there is a solution. Can't remember what it is but there was a discussion on this in Ubuntu which I started at the end of September. You can either check the archives, or check Launchpad or wait (and remind me! :-) ) to find what I wrote at the time. The bottom line to all this is that none of the devs use computers with floppy drives and so they cannot produce the answer - nor really care because nobody is supposed to have computers which use floppies anymore :-( - but there IS an answer; I needed to boot the system using a floppy and started the thread beginning with, "WTF?! NO floppy in Lucid or in Meerkat". The "fix" is reasonably easy, and my floppy drive now is functional. BC -- Gumperson's Law: The probability of anything happening is in inverse proportion to its desirability. -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
