On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, 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
>
You may also want to change it to:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
This lets you mount ext2, minux, and dos formatted disks. It also will
not try to mount the disk on bootup, so you will not get an error message
if you boot without a disk in the drive.
>
> 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
>
If I remember correctly, the flopy drivers are a module with the stock
kernel with 6.0. You may have to run "modprobe floppy" before mtools
work. You should also check /etc/mtools.conf to see how mtools is
configured to access your floppys. I think the default config only works
with 1.44M disks.
Mikkel
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