Thanks Basil I can't seem to find the previous correspondence (have searched back as far as May). There seems to be some very basic bug since according to fstab anyone can mount the floppy - and it seems to partially achieve this. I'm sure some LINUX guru will see this as a challenge and come up with the answer. Cheers David
On 03/11/10 20:32, Basil Chupin wrote: > 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 > > -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
