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Floppy drive won't refresh!


Urza9814
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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. :help:

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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

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...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

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