System: Fedora fc 15 x86_64 with xfce 4.8 kernel 2.6.41.1-1.fc15.x86_64 autofs-5.0.5-38.fc15.x86_64 others: hal-filesystem-0.5.14-6.fc15.x86_64 hal-libs-0.5.14-6.fc15.x86_64 hal-info-20090716-4.fc15.noarch hal-0.5.14-6.fc15.x86_64 hal-devel-0.5.14-6.fc15.x86_64 If I insert my usb-floppy disk with no floppy, dmesg is usb 1-1.3: new full speed USB device number 6 using ehci_hcd [ 5986.340579] usb 1-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=054c, idProduct=002c [ 5986.340584] usb 1-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [ 5986.340588] usb 1-1.3: Product: USB Floppy Drive [ 5986.340590] usb 1-1.3: Manufacturer: Sony [ 5986.345759] usb-storage 1-1.3:1.0: Quirks match for vid 054c pid 002c: 1 [ 5986.345798] scsi9 : usb-storage 1-1.3:1.0 [ 5987.350440] scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access SONY USB-FDU 7.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS [ 5987.350511] scsi: killing requests for dead queue [ 5987.350578] scsi: killing requests for dead queue [ 5987.350635] scsi: killing requests for dead queue [ 5987.350691] scsi: killing requests for dead queue [ 5987.350746] scsi: killing requests for dead queue [ 5987.350802] scsi: killing requests for dead queue [ 5987.350914] scsi: killing requests for dead queue [ 5987.350998] scsi: killing requests for dead queue [ 5987.351410] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [ 5987.430427] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk If I insert a floppy disk also in dmesg appears sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] 2880 512-byte logical blocks: (1.47 MB/1.40 MiB) [ 6095.471789] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present [ 6095.471794] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 6095.535771] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present [ 6095.535776] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 6095.615723] sdb: And no other. Nothing appears on desktop. Note: I'm able to mount it as root if I open a root terminal and I manually mount floppy with normal commands. "mkdir /media/floppy" "mount /dev/sdb /media/floppy" From this dmesg about my old usb-key flash drive with no internal partition usb 1-1.3: new high speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd [ 5601.030256] usb 1-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=0457, idProduct=0151 [ 5601.030261] usb 1-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0 [ 5602.164120] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas [ 5602.170917] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... [ 5602.171023] usb-storage 1-1.3:1.0: Quirks match for vid 0457 pid 0151: 80 [ 5602.171076] scsi8 : usb-storage 1-1.3:1.0 [ 5602.171175] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage [ 5602.171178] USB Mass Storage support registered. [ 5613.165250] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB2.0 USB Flash Disk 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [ 5613.165326] scsi: killing requests for dead queue [ 5613.165392] scsi: killing requests for dead queue [ 5613.165448] scsi: killing requests for dead queue [ 5613.165503] scsi: killing requests for dead queue [ 5613.165557] scsi: killing requests for dead queue [ 5613.165612] scsi: killing requests for dead queue [ 5613.165732] scsi: killing requests for dead queue [ 5613.165827] scsi: killing requests for dead queue [ 5613.166821] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 249344 512-byte logical blocks: (127 MB/121 MiB) [ 5613.167021] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [ 5613.167436] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 5613.167441] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00 [ 5613.168063] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed [ 5613.168067] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 5613.171854] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed [ 5613.171858] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 5613.278509] sdb: sdb1 [ 5613.281124] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed [ 5613.281129] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 5613.281132] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk [ 5613.543130] SELinux: initialized (dev sdb1, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts And after this, regularly appears on desktop usb-key windows with its contents. So: I think problem is only that system is unable to assign a units for device. If system was able to trasform /dev/sdb to /dev/sdb1 as it does for usb-key... I think that is missing only one line of program... Thank you for your kind attention Alberto Chiodi
What have you added to the autofs configuration to have it automount floppy discs? Are you sure you have logged this against the correct component?
Sorry... I'm only an end user not a programmer or developer I search in google and I've found many blog about manual mount command. One post spoke about autofs and particularly autofs files in /etc; nothing about other components. I try add this line in file /etc/auto.misc floppy -fstype=auto :/dev/fd0 under line cd -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/cdrom But it doesn't work; nor after autofs restart or reboot. Also: in the /dev directory there isn't old fd0 device but new /proc/self.... When I posted this bug I chose this program with no idea about if it's a autofs problem or hal or other components. I bag your pardon
(In reply to comment #2) > Sorry... I'm only an end user not a programmer or developer > I search in google and I've found many blog about manual mount command. > One post spoke about autofs and particularly autofs files in /etc; nothing > about other components. > I try add this line in file /etc/auto.misc > floppy -fstype=auto :/dev/fd0 Right, that is using autofs. > under line > cd -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/cdrom > > But it doesn't work; nor after autofs restart or reboot. > > Also: in the /dev directory there isn't old fd0 device but new /proc/self.... But autofs has no control over device file creation. The floppy must be recognised by the system and its device file created before you can configure autofs to use it since you must use the device file in the map entry. > > When I posted this bug I chose this program with no idea about if it's a autofs > problem or hal or other components. > I bag your pardon To be honest Gnome vfsd is better suited to automatically mounting and umounting removable media. Perhaps you should remove the autofs configuration and change the component to vfsd. If that isn't the correct component hopefully the maintainer will know the correct one. Ian
Thank'you Alberto
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 766010 ***