Floppy question

[Blake Barnett]

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cat /proc/filesystems

If you don't see 'vfat' or 'msdos' listed there, it won't be able to
mount any DOS or Windows floppies.  If it IS there, there may be a
problem with your drive, or the driver in the kernel for it.  As a first
attempt to get this support in the kernel try:

modprobe vfat

If it's a driver problem, try this:

dmesg | grep -i floppy

If you don't see a like which as "fd0 is"... Then you may want to try a
new kernel or check your compile options.

Hope this helps a bit.


On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 22:08, Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> It is a freshly formatted floppy that reports no bad sectors  on 2 different
> windows machines.  I changed the vfat file system that you suggested and got
> the same error.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert A . Klahn" <rklahn@acm.org>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.mybutt.net>
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 9:24 PM
> Subject: Re: Floppy question
> 
> 
> It sounds (from the input/output error message) that you are working with
> an uninitialized or unformated floppy.
> 
> If you know for sure that its an MSDOS (or MSWIN) formatted floppy, the
> file system type of "vfat" should work.
> 
> Bob.
> 
> On 2002.01.18 21:09 Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> > While on the topic of mounting floppies, I can not get mine to mount at
> > all
> > on my RH 7.2 system.  I get an error that says "/dev/fd0 input/output
> > error
> > mount: I could not determine the file system type and none was specified"
> >
> > on the properties screen device tab it says "auto" for file system type.
> > If
> > I change it to fat I get the same error.
> >
> > This has been happening with two different drives and cables
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Matt Alexander" <m@netpro.to>
> > To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.mybutt.net>
> > Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 4:07 PM
> > Subject: Re: Floppy question
> >
> >
> > Did you umount the old floppy before you removed it?
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Jim wrote:
> >
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> > >
> > > How do I get my system to reread the contents of the floppy?  When I do
> > an
> > ls
> > > - -la I see the stuff that I created on a floppy a while back.  I now
> > have
> > a
> > > different floppy in it, but it still lists the old data files.
> > >
> > > TIA
> > > - --
> > > Jim
> > >
> > > Freedom is worth preserving
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