Bug 11717
| Summary: | Can not mount /dev/fd0 on /mnt/floppy | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Vahik Manookian <vahik> |
| Component: | dev | Assignee: | Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-05-30 15:27:52 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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*** Bug 11718 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I have done lots of searching for this problem and I have executed all the suggested solutions but none of them works and I always get the same error. Here is a list of the commands that I have ran: > mount /mnt/floppy > mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > mount /dev/fd1 /mnt/floppy (including -t for vfat and msdos) > mount /dev/fd0H1440 /mnt/floppy (including -t for vfat and msdos) > mount /dev/fd0h1200 /mnt/floppy (including -t for vfat and msdos) I have no problem using the CD. My /etc/fstab is: === /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda2 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 === listing /dev/fd0 gives > ll /dev | grep fd0 brw-rw---- 1 vahik floppy 2, 0 May 5 1998 fd0 One last information I can provide is that in dos, win98 detects a 5&1/2" floppy drive, I don't know how much this is related, but I want to give any information I can. Is your floppy drive actually being detected as one? Because many of them are actually ATAPI devices and not "real" floppy drives, LS-120 drives often show up as removable hard drives, which would make the device name "/dev/hdb" or something similar. Check the /var/log/dmesg file for a line like this one: hdb: LS-120 If you see something like this, then you're attempting to mount the wrong device, and you should only need to fix the fstab entry to reflect that. (Closed due to inactivity.) |
Hi there, After Installing Red hat 6.2 (this is my first linux product), I can not use my floppy disk. When I trying to use the floppy I get the follwoing error (either using the floppy icon or using the command line via an xterm) === > mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy/ mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/fd0 as a block device (maybe `insmod driver'?) === I have upgrade the kernel from 2.2.14-5.0 to 2.2.14-12, but the problem did not go away, I have also updated the kernel for some bug fixes for 2.2.14-12 but the problem still exsists. Could you please help me? Note that my floppy drive is Panasonic Super Disk (LS120) 120MB. I have no problem using the drive in win98. I also want to convert the FAT32 formatted floppies into EXT2FS.