I would first try removing the /dev/fd0 line from the /etc/fstab file.
Its not required in fstab to mount a floppy or a cdrom for that matter
unless you want to mount with say the mount -a command or use
supermount. After removing the line, your problem should disappear.
Tom
Ivan Trail wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a Toshiba Laptop (Sattelite) that has a switchable cdrom/floppy drive.
> After the recent upgrade to 7.0, I find that I can only use the floppy drive.
> If I use the cdrom drive, It recognises it during boot up (FDC is a *****) and
> everything loads correctly. I can't mount the device though.
>
> [Ivan@localhost Ivan]$ mount /dev/cdrom
> mount: can't find /dev/hdc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
>
> I did notice that during boot, it sees a floppy drive w2hen the drive isn't
> even in the machine. FD0 is 1.44MB
>
> When I try to shutdown, the mormal procedures go fine until it tries to unmount
> all the filesystems. Then it says there is an I/O error on /dev/fd0 and it
> hangs. Power down and start up yeilds a unclean unmount error and the
> following fsck.
>
> Is this a supeermount issue, or a kudzu, or is there something I need to
> configure in the machine?
>
> I must note that every thing works fine with the floppy drive. also in 6.1 it
> woprked fine with both, but to switch you had to power down adn reboot to get
> the device recognised by the computer.
>
> Thanks again,
> Ivan
