Mounting Floppies
Hello All I was cleaning up when I came across some old floppies with stuff I wished to read. Ubuntu 10.04 would not mount the floppy although the drive light cam on for a short while and the drive 'clicked'. The file /etc/fstab includes the following entry: /dev/fd0/media/floppy0 autorw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 when issuing the command: mount /dev/fd0 the drive clicks and the terminal reports :- mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only Then examining the file /etc/mtab, it shows no entry for the floppy. Issuing the command umount /etc/fd0 the terminal reports:- umount: /dev/fd0 is not mounted (according to mtab) I cannot read the floppy - it is not mounted although it was reported as being so. Any ideas ?? Thanks David -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Mounting Floppies
On 03/11/2010 18:58, David Bowskill wrote: Hello All I was cleaning up when I came across some old floppies with stuff I wished to read. Ubuntu 10.04 would not mount the floppy although the drive light cam on for a short while and the drive 'clicked'. The file /etc/fstab includes the following entry: /dev/fd0/media/floppy0 autorw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 when issuing the command: mount /dev/fd0 the drive clicks and the terminal reports :- mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only Then examining the file /etc/mtab, it shows no entry for the floppy. Issuing the command umount /etc/fd0 the terminal reports:- umount: /dev/fd0 is not mounted (according to mtab) I cannot read the floppy - it is not mounted although it was reported as being so. Any ideas ?? Thanks David Yes. A known problem but there is a solution. Can't remember what it is but there was a discussion on this in Ubuntu which I started at the end of September. You can either check the archives, or check Launchpad or wait (and remind me! :-) ) to find what I wrote at the time. The bottom line to all this is that none of the devs use computers with floppy drives and so they cannot produce the answer - nor really care because nobody is supposed to have computers which use floppies anymore :-( - but there IS an answer; I needed to boot the system using a floppy and started the thread beginning with, WTF?! NO floppy in Lucid or in Meerkat. The fix is reasonably easy, and my floppy drive now is functional. BC -- Gumperson's Law: The probability of anything happening is in inverse proportion to its desirability. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Mounting Floppies
Thanks Basil I can't seem to find the previous correspondence (have searched back as far as May). There seems to be some very basic bug since according to fstab anyone can mount the floppy - and it seems to partially achieve this. I'm sure some LINUX guru will see this as a challenge and come up with the answer. Cheers David On 03/11/10 20:32, Basil Chupin wrote: On 03/11/2010 18:58, David Bowskill wrote: Hello All I was cleaning up when I came across some old floppies with stuff I wished to read. Ubuntu 10.04 would not mount the floppy although the drive light cam on for a short while and the drive 'clicked'. The file /etc/fstab includes the following entry: /dev/fd0/media/floppy0 autorw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 when issuing the command: mount /dev/fd0 the drive clicks and the terminal reports :- mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only Then examining the file /etc/mtab, it shows no entry for the floppy. Issuing the command umount /etc/fd0 the terminal reports:- umount: /dev/fd0 is not mounted (according to mtab) I cannot read the floppy - it is not mounted although it was reported as being so. Any ideas ?? Thanks David Yes. A known problem but there is a solution. Can't remember what it is but there was a discussion on this in Ubuntu which I started at the end of September. You can either check the archives, or check Launchpad or wait (and remind me! :-) ) to find what I wrote at the time. The bottom line to all this is that none of the devs use computers with floppy drives and so they cannot produce the answer - nor really care because nobody is supposed to have computers which use floppies anymore :-( - but there IS an answer; I needed to boot the system using a floppy and started the thread beginning with, WTF?! NO floppy in Lucid or in Meerkat. The fix is reasonably easy, and my floppy drive now is functional. BC -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Mounting Floppies
Just check to see if you have the following, ls /media cdrom cdrom0 floppy floppy0 The following are symlinks, cdrom floppy, they just point to the directories ending in 0. If there isn't a floppy/floppy0 just create them (as superuser) then see if you can mount the floppy. My desktop is floppy(less!) So I'm not 100% sure if this will fix the problem. My server was installed using ubuntu server edition (8.10) and these directories/symlink were created on install. sent from my Telstra NEXTG™ handset -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Mounting Floppies
If you just want to get some stuff of floppy, just use mtools. Don't bother mounting. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Mounting Floppies
On 03/11/2010 23:16, David Bowskill wrote: Thanks Basil I can't seem to find the previous correspondence (have searched back as far as May). There seems to be some very basic bug since according to fstab anyone can mount the floppy - and it seems to partially achieve this. I'm sure some LINUX guru will see this as a challenge and come up with the answer. Cheers David The bug discussion is here- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/udisks/+bug/441835 Now, follow what NoOp states in that discussion. Which is: replace the default installation 9using Synaptic Package Manager) of udisks-1.0.1-ubuntu1 with the OLD version which is udisks-1.0.1-1build1 and then LOCK it in the Synaptic Package Manager so that it is not upgraded. Install this same old version in Maverick (10.10); have a look at the archives for ubuntu-users on 25 September and look for a post from NoOp who tells me how to install this old version of udisks in Maverick (I only have record of what I sent out and not the complete thread). BC-- Gumperson's Law: The probability of anything happening is in inverse proportion to its desirability. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
