Public bug reported:
I just got a teac usb external floppy drive and it won't mount. I looked
a little bit on forums and will continue to look, and I have tried the
below in terminal so far.
edward@SelfmadeDesktop:~$ sudo gedit /etc/modules
[sudo] password for edward:
edward@SelfmadeDesktop:~$ cd /media
edward@SelfmadeDesktop:/media$ dir
ATTACHE\ FLASH\ DRIVE floppy floppy0 Transcend VirtualMachines-13.7GB
edward@SelfmadeDesktop:/media$ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdc /media/floppy -o
uid=1000
mount: /dev/sdc already mounted or /media/floppy busy
edward@SelfmadeDesktop:/media$ dir
ATTACHE\ FLASH\ DRIVE floppy floppy0 Transcend VirtualMachines-13.7GB
edward@SelfmadeDesktop:/media$ cd floppy
edward@SelfmadeDesktop:/media/floppy$ dir
edward@SelfmadeDesktop:/media/floppy$ cd ..
edward@SelfmadeDesktop:/media$ sudo rmdir floppy
rmdir: failed to remove `floppy': Not a directory
edward@SelfmadeDesktop:/media$ sudo umount /dev/sdc
umount: /dev/sdc: not mounted
edward@SelfmadeDesktop:/media$ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdc /media/floppy -o
uid=1000
mount: /dev/sdc already mounted or /media/floppy busy
edward@SelfmadeDesktop:/media$ sudo umount /dev/sdc
umount: /dev/sdc: not mounted
edward@SelfmadeDesktop:/media$
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: mount 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.10.10.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-31.62-generic 2.6.35.13
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-31-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Dec 3 20:19:19 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: util-linux
** Affects: util-linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug maverick
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