[newbie] floppy drive mounting, accessing, file structure?
Hi, $ su Password: 273 root@psybernet:/mnt/floppy (01:43:43) # ls 274 root@psybernet:/mnt/floppy (01:43:48) # this is what i get when trying to read files in the floppy drive - the disk has files and folders created in Windows - can it see those? Walter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Floppy drive question........
I did a fix to get myfloppy driveworking. NowI havejust one more questionabout it. When I click the floppy desktop icon I see the activitey light go on but only the first time I click it. If I click it agian with a different disk in there it just brings up the same files that were on the first disk.
Re: [newbie] Floppy drive question........
you aren't unmounting the first disk before removing it, you need to do this, right click on the icon and choose 'unmount' (in kde anyway) bascule On Thursday 29 Nov 2001 2:51 am, you wrote: I did a fix to get my floppy drive working. Now I have just one more question about it. When I click the floppy desktop icon I see the activitey light go on but only the first time I click it. If I click it agian with a different disk in there it just brings up the same files that were on the first disk. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Floppy drive question........
Yep, I'm a dummy. Thanksit's been really bothering me. - Original Message - From: bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 6:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Floppy drive question you aren't unmounting the first disk before removing it, you need to do this, right click on the icon and choose 'unmount' (in kde anyway) bascule On Thursday 29 Nov 2001 2:51 am, you wrote: I did a fix to get my floppy drive working. Now I have just one more question about it. When I click the floppy desktop icon I see the activitey light go on but only the first time I click it. If I click it agian with a different disk in there it just brings up the same files that were on the first disk. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Floppy drive
Hey all. I have question about the floppy drive. Why is it that I can read floppy disks formatted for DOS/Windows but I cannot read and Linux disks, not even my Linux boot disk? -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user #175132 Powered by Linux-Mandrake 7.1
Re: [newbie] Floppy drive
Glenn Johnson wrote: Hey all. I have question about the floppy drive. Why is it that I can read floppy disks formatted for DOS/Windows but I cannot read and Linux disks, not even my Linux boot disk? -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user #175132 Powered by Linux-Mandrake 7.1 Because linux (by default) sets up floppy drives for the 'vfat' filesystem. If you want to read/write 'ext2' file system, you need to mount the drive explicitly. Take a look at 'man mount' and 'man fstab' - (without the quotes) from your terminal prompt. cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] And 23:59:59 ahead of most of the rest of the world
Re: [newbie] Floppy Drive problem
Boulat There are sites such as www.linmodems.org that have shown a limited amount of success in getting winmodems to work in Linux but for the most part the answer is no you will not be able to get your modem to work in Linux. Chales - Original Message - From: "Boulat Rafikov" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 9:04 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Floppy Drive problem Thanks, Charles You mean, when it is listed as "communication device" (just a my case), there are no way to get modem working in Linux Rgds. Boulat -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 June 2000 13:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Floppy Drive problem Boulat Regardihg your PCI modem. Any board with a Lucent chip Linux will see as a "Communication device". If it is a hardware based modem Linux will list it as a "Communication controller" If yours is listed as device then it is a Winmodem. Charles 6/7/2000 8:20am - Original Message - From: "Boulat Rafikov" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 10:20 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Floppy Drive problem Hello Thanks. I'm awaiting respective message,anxiuosly. Let me describe more details: I bought my notebook with FD/LS120 combo drive, preinstalled.(BIOS: FDD controller=enable,Second Master device) All problems I mentioned, are valid for configuration above. My next step was :disable FDD controller.When next start Linux,FDD hopefully WAS NOT recognised (I say hopefully because closing Linux session was smooth, without hang up, and next start of Linux has no problems, too.)More over, this fixed some HD problems,like "invalid partition table, probably unaccessible ext partition" warning from PartMagic4 and NDD. So, I can use Linux, but without FD/LS120 support :(( I believe, there mus exist more elegant solution? At least, FD support? It seem you are experienced Linux hacker... Could you please,answer one more question? My notebook has internal PCI Lucent chipset based 56kbps modem.Installation manual say "Winmodems" can't be used with LInux. But I found information from Actiontec support,saying how to configure my modem for Linux: 1.As long as device is recognised by kernel (cat /process/pci report "Lucent communication device. IO at 0x1010 and 0x1800), 2.I followed recomendations and did: setserial /dev/ttyS3 port 0x1010 spd_vhi skip_test auto_irq,autoconfig then: setserial /dev/ttyS3 uart 16550A from command line. But internal modem still don't work... Some suggestion? 3.PCMCIA Xircom 33.6 Modem card is correctly recognised by cardctl as CM33 C.Card. But I/O information IS DIFFERENT from one I obtained from Windows device manager. Is this relevant? If yes, how I can force Linux recognize correct I/O, what file I must edit ,how,and where? I found that Base memory address for Xircom Card and for Internal modem is same. May be, this is a source of problems? I'm sorry for long email, but I'm really willing to configure my machine to be usable with Linux. Regards. Boulat -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 June 2000 18:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Floppy Drive problem If you have replaced your normal floppy drive with an LS120 and disabled floppy in BIOS it will hang if you try to access it - I found out the hard way. I have posted a reply to someone else about setting up LS120's - When it gets posted it may help you On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi, my machine: GAteway Solo9300 PIII Notebook. HDD 12gb,first master, DVD-ROM first slave, FDD/LS120 second master, internal PCI modem 56kbps (winmodem?) I have trouble with: 2.Problem with LS120 "SuperDrive": installation recognized drive as "floppy" device and "LS120" device. When I try access 1,44m floppy (or 120mb disk), has no any drive activity, but console LED is lighted for 2-3min.(drive LED is OFF). When I try access /mnt directory, same thing occur, and Xserver sometimes is frozen. When I insert floppy into drive, I hear some noise (driver mechanics activity). When logging out from Linux, system frozen when try to unmount /dev/fd0,. Error message say about I/O error.So, Linux session don't close properly. On next start, system forced to perform long make-up to restore linux. Please, help to fix these problems. Rgds. Boulat -- * How can I Automount my brain at boot time ? * --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.127 / Virus Database: 60 - Release Date: 21/02/00 --- Outgoing mail is certified V
[newbie] Floppy Drive problem
Hi, my machine: GAteway Solo9300 PIII Notebook. HDD 12gb,first master, DVD-ROM first slave, FDD/LS120 second master, internal PCI modem 56kbps (winmodem?) I have trouble with: 2.Problem with LS120 "SuperDrive": installation recognized drive as "floppy" device and "LS120" device. When I try access 1,44m floppy (or 120mb disk), has no any drive activity, but console LED is lighted for 2-3min.(drive LED is OFF). When I try access /mnt directory, same thing occur, and Xserver sometimes is frozen. When I insert floppy into drive, I hear some noise (driver mechanics activity). When logging out from Linux, system frozen when try to unmount /dev/fd0,. Error message say about I/O error.So, Linux session don't close properly. On next start, system forced to perform long make-up to restore linux. Please, help to fix these problems. Rgds. Boulat
Re: [newbie] Floppy Drive problem
If you have replaced your normal floppy drive with an LS120 and disabled floppy in BIOS it will hang if you try to access it - I found out the hard way. I have posted a reply to someone else about setting up LS120's - When it gets posted it may help you On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi, my machine: GAteway Solo9300 PIII Notebook. HDD 12gb,first master, DVD-ROM first slave, FDD/LS120 second master, internal PCI modem 56kbps (winmodem?) I have trouble with: 2.Problem with LS120 "SuperDrive": installation recognized drive as "floppy" device and "LS120" device. When I try access 1,44m floppy (or 120mb disk), has no any drive activity, but console LED is lighted for 2-3min.(drive LED is OFF). When I try access /mnt directory, same thing occur, and Xserver sometimes is frozen. When I insert floppy into drive, I hear some noise (driver mechanics activity). When logging out from Linux, system frozen when try to unmount /dev/fd0,. Error message say about I/O error.So, Linux session don't close properly. On next start, system forced to perform long make-up to restore linux. Please, help to fix these problems. Rgds. Boulat -- * How can I Automount my brain at boot time ? *
Re: [newbie] Floppy drive problems--figured it out
On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, sean F wrote: Well share the wealth! What if some else has the same problem? I had used tar to archive some files on a floppy. I hadn't known that I didn't need to mout the floppy drive to access the archived files. It seems that tar does that automatically. Michelle -- "Just because kittens are born in the hearth oven, that doesn't make them muffins." Kahlan Amnell in _Temple of the Winds_ by Terry Goodkind.
Re: [newbie] Floppy drive problems
First, is the floppy formatted VFAT, or ext2? Now, proceed: 1) at a console, type "mount -t VFAT /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" (replace "VFAT" with "ext2" if your floppy is formatted ext2) 2) now browse the /mnt/floppy directory and you should see all the files on your floppy. If you see the files, then all worked well. HTH, Matt From: Michelle Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Floppy drive problems Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 01:14:18 -0500 Just in the last few days I have not been able to mount my floppy drive. I can still mount my cdrom drive but not the floppy drive. I get a message that says "mount: you must specify the filesystem type." I am running Mandrake 6.0. Do I have to reinstall, or is there another way to fix this? I was trying to back up a few files to a floppy when I started to have problems. Michelle -- "Just because kittens are born in the hearth oven, that doesn't make them muffins." Kahlan Amnell in _Temple of the Winds_ by Terry Goodkind. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Floppy drive mount problem
I am trying out Red Hat 6.0 and everything is greta except when I use the mount drive icon or the terminal to get to a floopy disk it tells me "mount /mnt/floppy 21" reported: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many mounted file systems. Any suggestions on how to fix this or maybe get a floppy and cd icon on the desk? Thanks. Payne __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
