arctic Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 hi everyone. :D i just bought a new usb-3 1/2" floppy drive for my ubuntu/debian, gnome 2.8 laptop (it didn't have one before) and tried to mount it. i thought it would be nice to plug it in like the digital camera and everything is done, but instead of only one sda-drive on the desktop, i get dozens of symbols popping up. i thought that it might be a problem with my lappy only, but when i plugged the nec uf0002 drive into one of my desktop-pc's (all are running with ubuntu atm), the same thing happened. i tried to get rid of that problem, changing my fstab (adding usb-entries), but my - oh so wonderful - idea failed miserably. now my simple question is: does anyone have a clue how to mount a usb-floppy without getting sda, sdb, sdc, sde, sdf,... mounted? second eyeroller: the digital camera doesn't pop up on my desktop of the very same laptop, although it worked fine on the other boxes and adding a fstab entry only gave the result that there was no such device, no matter what combination of entries i tried for my /dev sdXX. strange, eh? funny thing: both things worked with mandrake and gentoo. the automounting in ubuntu is the troublemaker. so, how can i disable it in debian/ubuntu (i searched but haven't found it and no useful info on the net... :sad:) in order to set up my entries in /etc/fstab for manual mounting (like in gentoo)? thank you in advance :) p.s.: in case you need some specific hardware info here, please ask. i thought about it but wasn't quite sure if this is hardware related in any way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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