[100545] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Can't mount floppy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Messmer)
Sat Nov 21 18:52:41 1998
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 15:49:30 -0800
From: Gordon Messmer <yinyang@eburg.com>
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You should only get that if the kernel can't read anything from the
drive. Does the access light come on when you try to mount the
floppy? If not, check your BIOS and make sure it's still set up
correctly, and make sure the power and cable are connected properly.
If the light comes on, try a different disk... ?
MSG
"Carey F. Cox" wrote:
>
> For some reason, I can no longer mount my floppy disk. I'm not sure
> what I did to mess this up. When I try to mount /mnt/floppy I get
> the following error message...
>
> [root@tabasco /dev]# mount /mnt/floppy
> mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
>
> A listing of /dev/fd0 gives,
>
> [root@tabasco /dev]# ls -laF /dev/fd0
> brw-rw-r-- 1 root floppy 2, 0 Dec 31 1979 /dev/fd0
>
> and I have the following 2 lines in my /etc/fstab
>
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto,user 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/a: msdos noauto,user 0 0
>
> Any ideas? This was working fine about two weeks ago.
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