Reading floppy drive

[ahurd]

When I click on System Menu-->Storage Media-->floppy0 Konqueror pops up but reports No Files although there is a file on the disk. Also, the floppy drive light doesn't come on as it should when the floppy is being read. Could anyone sort this out for me? Thanks.

[dibl]

Re: Reading floppy drive

It's been so long since I used my floppy drive that I won't even swear it's working, but here is the applicable line in my /etc/fstab file that supposedly makes it work:

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

So, you probably need to check and make sure you have a similar line in your /etc/fstab file.

[ahurd]

Re: Reading floppy drive

Still doesn't seem to work. Thanks anyway.

[Snowhog]

Re: Reading floppy drive

Post your /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab files for review.

[ahurd]

Re: Reading floppy drive

Here they are.

fstab:
--- - 2007-10-16 20:24:06.052842061 -0700
+++ /etc/fstab 2007-10-16 20:19:24.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
+# -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
+#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
-proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
-# /dev/sda3
-UUID=af22c56f-78e9-48a4-ae6b-3b501b82fa5c / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
-# /dev/sda2
-UUID=8078DFDB78DFCDD2 /media/sda2 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
-# /dev/sda1
-UUID=2A740A75740A4453 /windows ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
-# /dev/sda5
-UUID=7185a6fc-e27d-4411-ab1f-49054367b077 none swap sw 0 0
- /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,auto 0 0
- #/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,auto 0 0
-/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0

mtab:
/dev/sda3 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
varrun /var/run tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755 0 0
varlock /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777 0 0
procbususb /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
devshm /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
lrm /lib/modules/2.6.20-15-generic/volatile tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/8078DFDB78DFCDD2 /media/sda2 fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/2A740A75740A4453 /windows fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0

[Snowhog]

Re: Reading floppy drive

Hmm. The only difference (besides the drive identification it self (mine is different than yours), is the exec entry in your fstab for the floppy:

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

Change the line above to read:

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

save, and reboot. See if there is a difference.

[ahurd]

Re: Reading floppy drive

Seems to have been resolved by Snowhogs suggestion to my other query on "mounting floppy". Thanks all.