On Sun, 16 May 2004 10:05 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Sun, 16 May 2004 07:34 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 12:38, David A. Ferguson wrote: > >>>Well I am a new user myself. So, I am not sure what all the parameters > >>>mean. > >>>But, here is a copy of my floppy fstab line and some comments. > >>> > >>>MINE none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0 > >>>YOURS none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2 > >>>,--,umask=0,user \___/ \__/ this probably lets it read DOS > >>> and Linux disks__/ / / this is probably your problem, > >>> the user flag turns off __/ a lot of other flags (see man mount for > >>> details) > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>MINE ,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 > >>>YOURS ,iocharset=iso8859-1, codepage=850 0 0 > >>> \__/ > >>> / > >>>I think this causes all writes to occure immediately. > >>> > >>> > >>>Try removing the 'user' flag and see if that works. I would guess that > >>>the sync flag would be good for floppies since you might remove a floppy > >>>while there was still some buffered data. > >> > >>I made my fstab lines exactly the same as yours and still no joy! This > >>is getting serious, I can't back up anything! > >> > >>Rich > > > >I am coming in late here but remove supermount might be the answer, so it > > has always been in my systems. On some it works on others it doesn't. > > > >HTH > > Easyest wayI found was to # out the entries for supermount floppies and > replace them with, > > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 > > that sets up automount which does work. > > John
Very similar without supermount, mount manually and it also works:- /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,nosuid,nodev,noauto,unhide,sync,umask=0,user 0 0 HTH -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 ------------------------------- The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it. .............................Henry David Thoreau _______________________________ This email is guaranteed to be Wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Experience what others using Mandrake Linux have experienced at:- http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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