Floppy Disk doesn't want to mount.

[DeathKitten]

Hi everyone!

I have a silly little floppy disk I would like to see what's on it (bonus material that came with an EP I bought from a band recently) and I just finally got around to installing the floppy drive I had laying around. However, I don't seem to know how to get the silly thing to work.

It doesn't auto mount, and when I try to manually mount it, I get an error back that just says "mount: mount point /media/floppy does not exist". Googling for that gave me big ol' long threads with a lot of random other trouble shooting involved and I didn't seem to find a solution to help me out. Any suggestions?

[jglen490]

Re: Floppy Disk doesn't want to mount.

Try

sudo mkdir /media/floppy

. Then mount it as root to see and poke around the drive. Later you can set it up for all users.

[DeathKitten]

Re: Floppy Disk doesn't want to mount.

Well, I seem to have made progress. I'm now getting a different error:

goddess@nilpferd:~$ sudo mkdir /media/floppy
[sudo] password for goddess:
goddess@nilpferd:~$ sudo mount -o rw -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
mount: special device /dev/fd0 does not exist

[dibl]

Re: Floppy Disk doesn't want to mount.

Does your BIOS support a floppy drive? Does the one you installed show up there? It sounds like Linux doesn't see any floppy drive, and it usually gets its cues from BIOS on stuff like that.

Also, go ahead and put the diskette in the drive while you're messing about with it. Sometimes the removable media devices don't like to respond unless there's media present.

[DeathKitten]

Re: Floppy Disk doesn't want to mount.

I've had a diskette in whenever I've been playing with it, so I'll go check and see what the BIOS says and report back. Thanks. ^_^

[DeathKitten]

Re: Floppy Disk doesn't want to mount.

Okay, update time:

When I go check the BIOS, it doesn't have the floppy drive enabled. Okay, no big, I think, and enable it. However, it's not that simple, now it's giving me a "Floppy disk(s) fail (40)" error. Some googling points towards either my having put in the cable wrong (gorram thing wasn't labeled for which end was which, meh) or having a bad drive or cable. As any of the three is possible, and I really hate having to turn off my computer, I'm going to put off troubleshooting the possible physical problems for now, and see if I can get the data I want off the floppy disk I was making all this effort for by going over to my dad's house and trying it there.

I do plan to get the stupid thing working at some point, as I have a collection of floppy disks for pictures from my trip to Germany in '99 that I would eventually like to put up in my photo gallery online, and that's too much for me to be borrowing my dad's computer for. However that project is not a priority and I have other things that are higher demand upon my time. So this project will have to wait.

Thanks to everyone who tried to help me out though.