On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, a r wrote:
>Sometimes it won't read new discs that I insert. It doesn't even click and
>the light goes on.
>
>Is there a way to "refresh"?
>
>Supermount is in control of it normally but I tried the mount command just
>in case. Unfortunately the response was "floppy already mounted". When I did
>an ls -l on the floppy it reported 0 files.
You could, as root, try a mount -a, which will reload all the file systems
that are set up in /etc/fstab, perhaps that helps.
Otherwise do an umount /mnt/floppy and then a mount /dev/floppy
/mnt/floppy and see if that gives any better results...
Paul
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