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I have the same +problem with both Mandriva and Mageia but am not as advanced in Linux as you +are. Let's hope there is someone smarter than we are who can help us, and +then add the few lines of code so that we who still use floppies can +continue in our old ways. + +Paul Simon +"TJ" <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">andrewsfarm at gmail.com</A>> wrote in message +news:jg1nen$4r8$<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">1 at dough.gmane.org...</A> +><i>A Gnome user brought this up on a.o.l.mageia and a.o.l.mandriva. The issue, +</I>><i>apparently, affects both distros. Both of us are using the 32-bit Mageia 1. +</I>><i>I can't speak for him, but here is my problem: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I don't do it often at all, but what I'd like to be able to do is have +</I>><i> Dolphin detect when I put a floppy in the drive and add that to the Places +</I>><i> panel, just as it now does when I put a CD or DVD in one of those drives. +</I>><i> As it is now, when I put a floppy in the drive, nothing happens. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> lsmod shows that the floppy module is present. My fstab shows this for the +</I>><i> floppy: +</I>><i> +</I>>><i> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto +</I>>><i> umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,exec,flush 0 0 +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I can't even seem to be able to mount it by hand. $ mount /media/floppy +</I>><i> appears to work. At least, the drive spins and the busy LED comes on for a +</I>><i> while, then goes off. But, nothing shows in /media/floppy, and if I give +</I>><i> the mount command again without unmounting the drive, it still works. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> But, $ mount /media/floppy; mount /media/floppy results in these error +</I>><i> messages: +</I>><i> +</I>>><i> mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /media/floppy busy +</I>>><i> mount: according to mtab, /dev/fd0 is already mounted on /media/floppy +</I>><i> +</I>><i> But if I look at mtab, the floppy isn't there. And giving the mount +</I>><i> command again, on a separate line, produces no errors. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> It's as if the drive is mounted, then unmounted almost immediately. Or as +</I>><i> if the driver didn't allow enough time for the disk to be read before +</I>><i> deciding it couldn't be mounted. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> BTW, Windows XP, on the same hardware and with the same floppy, has no +</I>><i> problem with access. This is an old-style floppy drive, connected to the +</I>><i> motherboard. It is not usb. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Any ideas? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> TJ +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I> + + +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="006383.html">[Mageia-discuss] [Poll] What are your top requirements? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="006385.html">[Mageia-discuss] Servers downtime scheduled from Feb. 1 to 2 for maintenance +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#6384">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#6384">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#6384">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#6384">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |