Hi, Now for years I have seen people having problems with their floppy drive..well now it has happened to me.
I have various flavours of linux on this HD..suse 9.1 - mdk 10.0 - ubuntu warty and no problem with floppy. Today installed mdk 10.1 CE. Here is the entry in fstab..looks the exact same as in mdk 10.0.. none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 Kernel .. 2.6.8.1-10mdk Kindly please is there a issue in mdk 10.? Thanks *********************** I think I solved this problem by myself. I tried the various suggestions from list to no avail .. thanks to respondents. Out of shear desperation I did some changes to the fstab, Now any user can mount/unmount read/write to this floppy. That is on my system. When mounted via console a floppy icon appears and can be used. umount and it disappears. can be umounted on this icon too. See relevant fstab entry as was and now... Was..#none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 Now../dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,users,rw,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 *********************** -- Johan Registered linux user #330034
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