Re: [newbie] Floppy Problem w/8.1

2002-04-20 Thread Derek Jennings
Thats a known problem. Check this out http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/81errata.php3 and http://www.mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=1299&lang=en For some reason this problem does not appear on the list of known problems linked from the Mandrake Forum site, so I had to dig a bit to find the c

[newbie] Floppy Problem w/8.1

2002-04-20 Thread Bob Read
I'm stumped trying to solve a floppy drive problem. I'm using a PC100 motherboard: AMD k6-II 500 512MB sdram (Using drive caddies for easy swapping.) Dual booting Mandrake 8.1 w/ win98, Win98 has no problem with floppy, but linux does. Identical drive, Red Hat /win98, neither have any pr

[newbie] Floppy Problem

2001-07-17 Thread Eric Ng
I has recently installed Mandrake 8 download version on my system. After the installation, everything runs fine except my floppy drive. It cannot read from or write to any floppy disk with ext2 filetype at both root and user account, but it can access any Windows-formatted disk. My /etc/fstab has

[newbie] Floppy problem

2000-05-30 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, I'm on a laptop that has a removable floppy. It's never install and that causes commands like df and find to "hang" while they are trying to locate the floppy. How do I make Mandrake 7.0 know when the CDROM is in place and when the floppy is in place? They both use the same slot and only one