I guess you're accessing your floppy drive from an icon on your
desktop. I don't have any experience with accessing drives from icons.
I do everything from the command line. But it works for me. In my
/etc/fstab, I have two lines for my floppy drive, one for an ext2
floppy, and another for an msdos floppy:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2
noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/dosfloppy msdos
noauto,user,exec 0 0
When I stick in an already formatted floppy, I do: mount
/mnt/<dos>floppy. If you want to format a floppy, try:
setfdprm /dev/fd0 1440/1440
fdformat /dev/fd0
/sbin/mkfs -t ext2 <or msdos> /dev/fd0
mount /mnt/<dos>floppy
See if that works. Also, if you want to unmount your floppy, you can't
have any processes accessing /dev/fd0, including having any windows in
which the current directory is /mnt/<dos>floppy. Good luck,
Hidong
Richard Bligdon wrote:
>
> help a novice ....using RH 6.0.
>
> I can't seem to get the Floppy Drive(fd0) in order.
>
> I set up aplets on the panel for fd0 and cdrom...the cdrom works
> fine,but I am getting a number of errors with the floppy
> drive....namely:
>
> Upon system boot up:
>
> "floppy drive fd0 not valid block device [fail]" ( twice...2nd time
> under "mount other file systems")...
>
> When I try to access the drive from the panel applet I get the msg:
>
> Floppy drive not valid file system 2>&1... not mounted....or too many
> filesystems mounted"
>
> Sometimes,I get a freezeup when I try to access the panel applet(I
> think it's clear now tho)...
>
> /etc/fstab for fd0:
>
> /mnt/floppy /mnt/fd0 ....ext2 user,dev,suid,... 0 0
>
> I am writing this from memory on my win98 box as it has a 56k
> modem...the linuxbox has a SLOW one...also I tried to copy fstab to a
> floppy using mcopy(it worked then,but just now mdir gave the error
> "fd0 not configured")...but when I accessed it with notepad only the
> first line of text was there!
>
> Anyway,has anybody ever had this problem,or can someone get me on the
> right track?
>
> Richard
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