On Saturday 24 September 2005 01:27 pm Kenneth kindly wrote: > --- Siri Amrit Kaur wrote: > > This is really bad... something's very wrong. > > > > mount /floppy > > error is mount: no permission > > > > Changing the icon to /floppy or using the > > commandline to > > cd /floppy > > > > I can't even make it to "ls". It just hangs with > > endless I/O errors. > > It's crashing X, making my icons disappear. It runs > > in the background > > and I can't stop it, even by logging out, going into > > root and doing a > > telinit 1. Doesn't care if I pop out the disk... > > > > I/O error. dev fd), sector 0 (also sector 2, 4, > > etc...) > > EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock > > end_request: unable to read superblock > > FAT: unable to read boot sector > > end-request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 (& etc...) > > > > help. > > Do you have any sort of auto mounting enabled? I find > those interfere so much with the way I want to use > floppies and cdroms, I disable them all :) > This is what my fstab _was_: /dev/fd0  /floppy  vfat  defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022  0  0 I changed umask to 000 (everybody can read and write) but it didn't do change anything. Went to kanotix's help forum and someone else had a similar problem. Kano recommended changing the fstab line to read: none /floppy supermount fs=auto,dev=/dev/fd0,--,user,rw 0 0 So I did. > Does the floppy actually have a vfat filesystem on it? > Although it shouldn't do serious things with your > desktop, etc. if not, you never know. > I don't know. This is the 2nd floppy I've tried, though. > Does the floppy drive work? What happens if you type > dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null bs=4099 > (before trying to mount it) > tigerflag@localhost:~$ dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null bs=4099 dd: reading `/dev/fd0': Input/output error 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 24.368823 seconds (0 bytes/sec) > I've got something very unstable happening now because of this. Konqueror keeps locking up if I use the navigation panel, like some process in the background is taking up a lot of CPU cycles or RAM. Thanks for your help. Siri Amrit --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss