| 2010-07-19 03:27:32 |
Burt P. |
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Trying to mount a floppy disk fails in Ubuntu.
It is a conventional floppy drive, with regular FAT disks.
Trying to mount a disk via the Places menu cause the drive to make noise but never actually mounts the disk. There is no error. This is the same thing that happens with mount in terminal, the disk makes noise and mount returns like it was successful, but it isn't actually mounted. Nothing is added to dmesg.
Using mtools' mdir a: works as expected; reads the disk, and displays the list of files.
pburt@magus:~$ dmesg | grep fd0
[ 0.340934] pci 0000:00:11.0: reg 18 io port: [0xfd00-0xfd07]
[ 0.906905] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[ 82.510671] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
The I/O error line occurs during boot, before any disk was inserted. Nothing is written to dmesg when actually trying to use a disk. |
Trying to mount a floppy disk fails in Ubuntu.
It is a conventional floppy drive, with regular FAT disks.
Trying to mount a disk via the Places menu cause the drive to make noise but never actually mounts the disk. There is no error. This is the same thing that happens with mount in terminal, the disk makes noise and mount returns like it was successful, but it isn't actually mounted. Nothing is added to dmesg.
Using mtools' mdir a: works as expected; reads the disk, and displays the list of files.
pburt@magus:~$ dmesg | grep fd0
[ 0.340934] pci 0000:00:11.0: reg 18 io port: [0xfd00-0xfd07]
[ 0.906905] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[ 82.510671] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
The I/O error line occurs during boot, before any disk was inserted. Nothing is written to dmesg when actually trying to use a disk.
Ubuntu 10.04 |
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