Rowan Posted June 24, 2006 Report Share Posted June 24, 2006 Hello all Recently I found that I am unable to get my floppy to mount. It was going ok but now it won't play ball at all. I normally wouldn't worry about such small things but I need it for my job. I have searched the archives and tried some things that I found but none have worked and I am afraid that I may have buggered something unknowingly. I am running 10.1 official and it is otherwise running reasonable well. Here are the contents of my fstab file. # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 umask=0,user,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 umask=0,user,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,users 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto umask=0,user,iocharset=utf8,sync,unhide,noauto 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0,nls=utf8,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 Also my cdroms have been playing up recently so if anybody can cast any light upon what needs to be corrected (and how to do it) I would be very grateful. The floppy and cdroms work ok in Windows. Many thanks in anticipation. [moved from Hardware by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 24, 2006 Report Share Posted June 24, 2006 This is my fstab entry for my floppy, maybe match yours like this, and see how you get on: none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 And this is the CDROM entry you can try also: /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted June 24, 2006 Report Share Posted June 24, 2006 Try for now with changing the "auto" entry for the fileformat to "vfat". That should do the trick. /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat umask=0,user,iocharset=utf8,sync,unhide,noauto 0 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan Posted July 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2006 Thank you for your advice. I had endless problems getting access to fstab and still it wouldn't play ball so I just did "chmod a+rwx /mnt/floppy" and now it works. My cdrom and dvdrom seem to have come right so I will just let it sleep. Once again thanks for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted July 6, 2006 Report Share Posted July 6, 2006 Am I really the only one to laugh after reading those first 3 sentences? :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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