The floppy drive will not mount, or see the media it worked fine under 9.04
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linux (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: yelp
The floppy is showing in etc fstab and in modules but it won't mount. I did find an old line of code
sudo mkdir /media/floppy
sudo mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy -t vfat -o umask=000 that will open the floppy but it shows the floppy icon diferently as something else and it only works once, so in a sense it acts like there are two. As the real floppy icon says no media.
somehow the hardware, floppy, is not detected thus it cannot be mounted, even though the light comes on when it tries.
A long time ago and earlier version did this, but then after an update it went away....
I know some think people don't use floppys but MILLIONS still do.
Other than that all these other bugs listed DON'T appy every thing else works fine. It could be maybe the IDE and Floppy ???
Hmm I don;t know, but it is a little disappointing but in time I am sure you will solve it.
Thanks, apart from that every thing else works fine.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 30 00:46:33 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-
(polkit-
(nautilus:1901): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences
(nautilus:2003): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences
affects: | yelp (Ubuntu) → ubuntu |
Exactly my case,floppy works only through command line,in the Slackware fashion. overlapping issues. overlapping issues above I imagine the system will get the obvious one and leave floppy,perhaps USB go undetected.
Maybe due to grub/partition/
Same happened in a previous upgrade Dapper-->Hardy, but then it affected USB DRIVE as well;in this particular case the solution to floppy was like yours mkdir /media/floppy -->sudo mount /dev/fd0,but the USB issue remained...
Since my HD partitions weren't regular and /tmp had its own space elsewhere, I wasn't able to visualize what I had with sudo cfdisk! The solution was a fresh install. Not pretending this as a solution,just for consideration.
As for the grub/partition/
Good luck
angelo f valente