Urza9814 Posted June 6, 2004 Report Share Posted June 6, 2004 Ok, I put a few files on a floppy a few days ago...the disc hasn't been near the drive since...today I went to take some files off of a different disc, and /mnt/floppy showed what I put on the disc the other day. I try just using 'dir /mnt/floppy' from terminal, same thing. I try different discs, and even no disc...same thing...and here's the part that really scares me...there's not disc at all in the drive, and I can still open those files. It's treating /mnt/floppy as a normal directory, not a drive! Help! I can't access floppies form winblows either...my drive was unplugged or something when I installed it...and I tried add/remove hardware...says it's not there...so basically, my floppy drive is screwed now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris z Posted June 6, 2004 Report Share Posted June 6, 2004 try this............ open /etc/fstab with a text editor, look for the line that says /dev/fd0 (blah, blah, blah) & comment it out (like this............ #/dev/fd0 blah,blah,blah). save it, reboot, & mdk will (should) redetect the floppy drive as new hardware & set it up for you anew. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted June 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2004 ...it's not there...there's no /mnt/floppy listed either...this is all i have: /dev/hdb5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda8 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0 none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu 0 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdg Posted June 6, 2004 Report Share Posted June 6, 2004 Have you checked your floppy cable and power cable? Maybe something worked loose. Is the drive set up correctly in the bios? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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