I have a floppy problem

[yanom]

My Kubuntu used to auto-mount 3.5-inch floppies when I put them in the drive, but
one day it just quit. I know floppies are obsolete, but I really need my floppy drive back. HELP!!!!!!!

[dibl]

Re: I have a floppy problem

Check your /etc/fstab file -- you should have a line near the end of it that looks approximately like this:

/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

[yanom]

Re: I have a floppy problem

Mine looks like this:

/dev/fd0    /media/floppy0 auto  rw,user,noauto 0    0

Also, the "drive in use" light on my floppy drive is not on. I checked with different floppies, so It's not a floppy problem. Also, I use the Xubuntu live-cd on a different machine, I had the same problem.

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[dibl]

Re: I have a floppy problem

I very rarely use the thing -- it's just there to make me feel better about my ability to do a BIOS flash.

I just dusted off an old diskette and inserted it, and the drive seems to be working normally. I popped open D3lphin, but it's not displaying the diskette -- hard to tell whether there's anything on it, or whether it is corrupted or something.

OK, I used the Konsole -- here it is:

dibl@cville:/media/floppy0$ ls
appt.bak gedcomvw.zip phone.bak todo.bak

I dunno -- you might try copying my fstab line -- I don't know that the difference is significant, but it might be.

[yanom]

Re: I have a floppy problem

You should try copying my fstab line

nope, didn't work

[dibl]

Re: I have a floppy problem

The fact that the light doesn't come on makes me wonder about the hardware. Has that floppy worked recently, on any OS? It might have just died (or the controller, or the cable got a little loose ...).

[Rog131]

Re: I have a floppy problem

Is your hardware detected ?

In the konsole:

dmesg | grep Floppy

or

cat /var/log/dmesg | grep Floppy

Here it tells:

[ 27.188854] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M

Sometimes it helps, if you mount the drive manually:

sudo mount -o rw -t msdos /dev/fd0 /media/floppy

or

sudo mount -o rw -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy

If manual mount isn't working -> error message:
(Trying to mount without floppy)

mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

If manual mounting isn't successful check dmesg:

dmesg

floppy0: probe failed...
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0

[ 5699.469825] floppy0: probe failed...
[ 5699.787942] floppy0: disk removed during i/o

[ 5699.836151] floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation
[ 5699.836155] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0

Link:
LinuxLogFiles
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LinuxLogFiles