Re: [newbie] Floppy disk and ZIP drive
I'll tell you how I got my two systems floppys to work.. No command line stuff. I'm a GUI Guy grin.. I just haven't had tons of experience with the command line..so I try to find ways to do things with KDE. Anywayhere goes.. I right click on the desktop and go to CREATE NEWand then to FLOPPY DEVICEthen I click the DEVICE tab and choose /dev/fd0 (/mnt/floppy) then a NEW floppy drive icon appears on the desktop.. and I delete the old one after making sure it works! I used the same procedure for creating shortcut icons for my ZIP drive and my CD rom and they all work. -- Dave Crouse Running Mandrake 8.1 IBM Intellistation E Pro 450 mghz 750 mb ram --- On Wednesday 12 December 2001 06:43 am, you wrote: Two problems. 1. I can not mount the floppy drive. I have tried mount with every conceivable parameter. Linuxconf says this typos mine: Executing: /bin/mount -t auto -o exec,nodev,nosuid,rw,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 /dev/fdo /mnt/floppy: * mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device * return 32 2. How do I setup a ZIP drive? The only text on the subject that I have found is in www.linuxdoc.org and it says I need to recompile the kernel which is something I am never ever going to pull off. Are there any other ways of doing it? /Cinquo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Floppy disk and ZIP drive
Two problems. 1. I can not mount the floppy drive. I have tried mount with every conceivable parameter. Linuxconf says this typos mine: Executing: /bin/mount -t auto -o exec,nodev,nosuid,rw,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 /dev/fdo /mnt/floppy: * mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device * return 32 2. How do I setup a ZIP drive? The only text on the subject that I have found is in www.linuxdoc.org and it says I need to recompile the kernel which is something I am never ever going to pull off. Are there any other ways of doing it? /Cinquo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Floppy disk and ZIP drive
Ville V Sinkko wrote: Two problems. 1. I can not mount the floppy drive. I have tried mount with every conceivable parameter. Linuxconf says this typos mine: Executing: /bin/mount -t auto -o exec,nodev,nosuid,rw,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 /dev/fdo /mnt/floppy: * mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device * return 32 2. How do I setup a ZIP drive? The only text on the subject that I have found is in www.linuxdoc.org and it says I need to recompile the kernel which is something I am never ever going to pull off. Are there any other ways of doing it? Check your /etc/fstab file and see what it has for these 2 devices. Here are the lines from my /etc/fstab file: Floppy: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 Zip: /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 Note that you will have to change hdd4 to match your system/setup, if you use this line for your Zip drive. If your fstab entries are the sameas mine, then simply right-clicking on your KDE (I'm not terribly familiar with Gnome) desktop will allow you to create a new device (I use floppy drive for both). You can pick your drives from there. If you change your fstab file, you can have it re-read by the system without rebooting by doing a mount -a BTW, what version of Mandrake r u using? Supermount is disabled in 8.1! Hope this helps! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Floppy disk and ZIP drive
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 09:28:31 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ville V Sinkko wrote: Two problems. 1. I can not mount the floppy drive. I have tried mount with every conceivable parameter. Linuxconf says this typos mine: Executing: /bin/mount -t auto -o exec,nodev,nosuid,rw,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 /dev/fdo /mnt/floppy: * mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device * return 32 2. How do I setup a ZIP drive? The only text on the subject that I have found is in www.linuxdoc.org and it says I need to recompile the kernel which is something I am never ever going to pull off. Are there any other ways of doing it? Check your /etc/fstab file and see what it has for these 2 devices. Here are the lines from my /etc/fstab file: Floppy: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 Zip: /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 Note that you will have to change hdd4 to match your system/setup, if you use this line for your Zip drive. If your fstab entries are the sameas mine, then simply right-clicking on your KDE (I'm not terribly familiar with Gnome) desktop will allow you to create a new device (I use floppy drive for both). You can pick your drives from there. If you change your fstab file, you can have it re-read by the system without rebooting by doing a mount -a BTW, what version of Mandrake r u using? Supermount is disabled in 8.1! As well as what ver of Man you are using the proper solution can, if you are running 8.1, be dependent upon wheather you did a clean install or an upgrade. What type of zip are you using, ide, pp, or USB? How is it listed in harddrake? Your /etc/fstab could have either 1 or 2 listing for yor zip and they could range from fdx, hdx, or sdx depending upon your setup. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Floppy disk and ZIP drive
Thanks for the replies. I got the Zip drive working with a friend's assistance (modprobe ppa, whatever THAT is, plus additions to /dev/fstab and /etc/modules). The floppy drive still refuses to be acknowledged. /dev/fstab has a perfectly correct-looking entry for it. The dmesg log features this bit: (I don't know if it has any significance) -- ide-floppy driver 0.97 Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M floppy0: Floppy io-port 0x03f0 in use ide-floppy driver 0.97 -- The Mandrake version is 8.1. I just installed this morning it on a blank HD. +Cinquo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Floppy disk and ZIP drive
Charles A Edwards wrote: As well as what ver of Man you are using the proper solution can, if you are running 8.1, be dependent upon wheather you did a clean install or an upgrade. What type of zip are you using, ide, pp, or USB? How is it listed in harddrake? Your /etc/fstab could have either 1 or 2 listing for yor zip and they could range from fdx, hdx, or sdx depending upon your setup. Charles Charles is right, of course. I was going on the basic assumption that you were using an IDE Zip... ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
