On Monday 06 Oct 2003 9:16 am, Richard Bown wrote: > Hi All > I suspect this has been round before.I had'nt noticed it as I > rarely use a floppy these days. > But that friend noticed it ,( I suspect I have misspelt friend, in > his case maybe the "r" is missing). > > I've checked my machines and they all do the same. > Which ever app uses the floppy drive first time dos'nt release it, > so the next time its used with a different app you get the error > message that the device is busy. > > eg. when starting with nautilus then win4lin or mtools > > Whats the preferred option in fstab for the floppy ? > > WM = gnome > Hi, Richard. Mine is none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 and supermount works fine for me.
Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
