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+ <H1>[Mageia-discuss] Can't access floppy drive</H1>
+ <B>TJ</B>
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+ TITLE="[Mageia-discuss] Can't access floppy drive">andrewsfarm at gmail.com
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+ <I>Sat Jan 28 21:56:54 CET 2012</I>
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+<PRE>A Gnome user brought this up on a.o.l.mageia and a.o.l.mandriva. The
+issue, apparently, affects both distros. Both of us are using the 32-bit
+Mageia 1. I can't speak for him, but here is my problem:
+
+I don't do it often at all, but what I'd like to be able to do is have
+Dolphin detect when I put a floppy in the drive and add that to the
+Places panel, just as it now does when I put a CD or DVD in one of those
+drives. As it is now, when I put a floppy in the drive, nothing happens.
+
+lsmod shows that the floppy module is present. My fstab shows this for
+the floppy:
+
+&gt;<i> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,exec,flush 0 0
+</I>
+I can't even seem to be able to mount it by hand. $ mount /media/floppy
+appears to work. At least, the drive spins and the busy LED comes on for
+a while, then goes off. But, nothing shows in /media/floppy, and if I
+give the mount command again without unmounting the drive, it still works.
+
+But, $ mount /media/floppy; mount /media/floppy results in these error
+messages:
+
+&gt;<i> mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /media/floppy busy
+</I>&gt;<i> mount: according to mtab, /dev/fd0 is already mounted on /media/floppy
+</I>
+But if I look at mtab, the floppy isn't there. And giving the mount
+command again, on a separate line, produces no errors.
+
+It's as if the drive is mounted, then unmounted almost immediately. Or
+as if the driver didn't allow enough time for the disk to be read before
+deciding it couldn't be mounted.
+
+BTW, Windows XP, on the same hardware and with the same floppy, has no
+problem with access. This is an old-style floppy drive, connected to the
+motherboard. It is not usb.
+
+Any ideas?
+
+TJ
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