Re: [newbie] Floppy Problems

2004-07-08 Thread Rich
Richard Urwin wrote: On Tuesday 06 Jul 2004 3:02 am, mike wrote: What does mtab say cat /etc/mtab here is mine below. none /mnt/floppy supermount rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--, umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 Also see what ls -al /mnt/floppy here is mine below. drwxrwxrwx 0

Re: [newbie] Floppy Problems

2004-07-07 Thread Richard Urwin
On Tuesday 06 Jul 2004 3:02 am, mike wrote: What does mtab say cat /etc/mtab here is mine below. none /mnt/floppy supermount rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--, umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 Also see what ls -al /mnt/floppy here is mine below. drwxrwxrwx 0 root root

[newbie] Floppy Problems

2004-07-05 Thread Rich
This problem has plagued me for over 2 months and I'm at my wits end. I've been in the process of moving for the past 3-4 months so haven't been able to do anything about it. The problem , in a nutshell, is that I can not write to my floppy or CD-R drives, even as root. The message is that

Re: [newbie] Floppy Problems

2004-07-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 05 July 2004 19:04, Rich wrote: This problem has plagued me for over 2 months and I'm at my wits end. I've been in the process of moving for the past 3-4 months so haven't been able to do anything about it. The problem , in a nutshell, is that I can not write to my floppy or CD-R

Re: [newbie] Floppy Problems

2004-07-05 Thread Rich
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 05 July 2004 19:04, Rich wrote: This problem has plagued me for over 2 months and I'm at my wits end. I've been in the process of moving for the past 3-4 months so haven't been able to do anything about it. The problem , in a nutshell, is that I can not write to my

Re: [newbie] Floppy Problems

2004-07-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 05 July 2004 22:53, Rich wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 05 July 2004 19:04, Rich wrote: This problem has plagued me for over 2 months and I'm at my wits end. I've been in the process of moving for the past 3-4 months so haven't been able to do anything about it. The

Re: [newbie] Floppy Problems

2004-07-05 Thread Rich
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 05 July 2004 19:04, Rich wrote: This problem has plagued me for over 2 months and I'm at my wits end. I've been in the process of moving for the past 3-4 months so haven't been able to do anything about it. The problem , in a nutshell, is that I can not write to my

[newbie] Floppy problems

2003-09-01 Thread Ze
i use Mandrake 9.1 with kde 3.1.3 in konqueror after i load a floppy, if i put a new one, what will appear will be the same conteud of the 1º first floppy how to fix? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Floppy problems

2003-09-01 Thread Eric Huff
in konqueror after i load a floppy, if i put a new one, what will appear will be the same conteud of the 1º first floppy how to fix? Sounds like a mounting issue. If you use a file manager, you might need to refresh, or maybe go up to the next level and then back down into the floppy? Just a

Re: [newbie] Floppy problems

2002-03-08 Thread Walter Logeman
Eric Estes -=RCN Mail=-, I am having a problem getting my floppy drive working. This is what I have in my /etc/fstab /dev/fd0 /mnt/flopy auto user, iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 My fstab line is exactly the same, and the floppy works. However do you need to

Re: [newbie] floppy problems

2000-12-27 Thread Bob Paddock
How goes it for you? I've not had time to try yet. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Tutorial/CDburner/ Will tell you step-by-step on a CDRW, including fixing the bad link made by kudzu.

Re: [newbie] floppy problems

2000-12-24 Thread a r
Thanks! I'll try it next time it happens... --Original Message-- From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: December 23, 2000 4:40:37 PM GMT Subject: Re: [newbie] floppy problems On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, a r wrote: Sometimes it won't read new discs that I insert. It doesn't

[newbie] floppy problems

2000-12-23 Thread a r
Hi, Have had a problem with my the floppy on my drive. Sometimes it won't read new discs that I insert. It doesn't even click and the light goes on. Is there a way to "refresh"? Supermount is in control of it normally but I tried the mount command just in case. Unfortunately the response was

Re: [newbie] floppy problems

2000-12-23 Thread Paul
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, a r wrote: Sometimes it won't read new discs that I insert. It doesn't even click and the light goes on. Is there a way to "refresh"? Supermount is in control of it normally but I tried the mount command just in case. Unfortunately the response was "floppy already

Re: [newbie] floppy problems

2000-10-24 Thread jesse martinez
om: "Marco Kwan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 7:26 AM Subject: [newbie] floppy problems my floppy doesn't seem to work right... I tried to unmount it and manually mount it but get the following.. mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad sup

Re: [newbie] floppy problems

2000-10-23 Thread Goldenpi
wrong fs type=wrong format bad option=typo bad superblock=??? too many mounted file systems=you have loads of partitions or drives. - Original Message - From: "Marco Kwan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 7:26 AM Subject: [newbie] flopp

[newbie] floppy problems

2000-10-22 Thread Marco Kwan
my floppy doesn't seem to work right... I tried to unmount it and manually mount it but get the following.. mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many mounted file systems does anyone know whta this means?

[newbie] Floppy problems

2000-02-04 Thread Lothar Mandrake
I have a floppy which I use daily in a Solaris 7 environment. When I try to use it in Linux-Mandrake it is usually mounted as "read-only," forcing me to copy the files to the hard disk before I can work with them. Then I have to copy them to another floppy, and copy them back to the