Floppy drive not recognized by new device notifier

[Snowhog]

Re: Floppy drive not recognized by new device notifier

Also, in fstab, the noauto option is appropriate if I am not keeping the same floppy in the drive at all times, right? auto would result in some odd behavior/error messages at boot if no floppy is present, yes?

You are correct. A floppy drive is a block device, not a file system. This is why, when included in the fstab file, the noauto option is used:

noauto - The filesystem will NOT be automatically mounted at startup, or when mount passed -a. You must explicitly mount the filesystem.

The 'explicitly mount' is supposed to occur when you insert a diskette. My USB floppy behaves in this manner, and it's entry in my fstab is:

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

[DracoTB]

Re: Floppy drive not recognized by new device notifier

Ok, this appears to be the right thread.

My etc/fstab has :

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

Do I need to put in the utf8?

Secondly, How do I edit fstab (or any file) as root?


EDIT:
I should point out that it's not reading the disk even though it seems to be working. It's also not giving me any option to format the disk.

[Snowhog]

Re: Floppy drive not recognized by new device notifier

This is my floppy (USB) fstab entry:

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

If your floppy is an internal, then the /dev/fd0 may be correct. Where/how did you arrive at that?

To edit the file "as root" you can launch kate as root by pressing Alt+F2 and typing:

kdesudo /usr/bin/kate /etc/fstab

[DracoTB]

Re: Floppy drive not recognized by new device notifier

That's what was in fstab. I assumed that it was automatic upon installation of 8.10. I've only just got around to putting in a floppy drive though. When I installed it should have picked up the existence of the onboard floppy controller which I didn't turn off.