satelliteuser083 Posted February 10, 2006 Report Share Posted February 10, 2006 When I read or write from/to the floppy drive on my Tosh Sat-Pro 4600 under LE2005 it takes AGES for anything to happen. I suspect that this is a software problen because, under Suse 10.0, access is like lightning. Can anyone say if this is a known problem on LE2005 and, if so, what do I have to do to correct it? Thanks. BTW, suddenly I cannot access the list of my topics; previously I simply clicked on Logged in as: satelliteuser083 and there it was. Has the system been changed, or do I have to modify my browser-settings (or something???). Help urgently needed. Thanks. [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 10, 2006 Report Share Posted February 10, 2006 I normally use My Controls at the top and then left hand side View Topics. The board was upgraded, but I have all my topics still that I'm subscribed too. They should be still there. Is your floppy disk drive built-in to your machine, or is it a USB one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted February 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2006 (edited) The floppy is built-in. I've just tried My Controls / View Topics as you suggested, but there is no list, just a blank frame (well, not completely blank, but, nevertheless, no list). VERY strange. :unsure: Afterthought: the 'blank' frame contains the message 'There are no subscriptions to show, try selecting a less restrictive date range' Edited February 10, 2006 by satelliteuser083 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted February 10, 2006 Report Share Posted February 10, 2006 please post your issue with the board software in Forum Discussion, preferrably in this thread. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted July 31, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 Just wanted to say that my floppy-drive problem has not disappeared, and am hoping that someone may have a useful input. :unsure: Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 What do you have in your /etc/fstab as floppy entry? Mine looks like this and works quite okay: none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 Mine looks different in Mandriva, are you on another distro arctic ;) /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto umask=0,users,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,noauto,exec 0 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 No, it is Mandriva 2006. :mellow: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 Hmm, same here. I just checked my desktop and found it to be similar to yours, but my laptop is shown as my previous entry. Consistency eh! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 satelliteuser083, you are not on your own with a very slow floppy, mine is in a pc and like yours nothing happens for ages when writing to the drive, even when it gets started very short burst are sent to the drive. I've been meaning to do something about it since installing 2006. Strangely enough it worked fine in previous versions. I'm going to look into it today so I'll report back if and when I find something, unless someone can beat me to it. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted August 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 arctic, my floppy entry in /etc/fstab looked almost identical to yours, except that mine contained 'iocharset=iso8859-1' (instead of '-15'). Anyway, I tried your entry, ian, and, yoohoo , it seems to work. The only difference is that the floppy is not automatically mounted (presumeably 'noauto'), but when I mount it via KDiskFree it reads the floppy immediately and also writes to it pretty rapidly. Will keep it under observation. Many thanks to you both. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 I had a similar problem with usb sticks, I found out it was due to the async entry in fstab, which should be sync for removable media but I believe it was sync for you guys already. sync = write realtime async = write at a convenient time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted August 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 Just for interest sake, the suse-10 entry is: /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0 which, as mentioned, works well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 the noauto option only applies to when the system is booted - it tells the system not to mount this device/partition automatically at boot. after you boot, automounting should be done through udev or devfs (i'm not sure which mandriva 2006 uses). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 It's supposedly still using supermount for floppies only :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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