1. Linux versus floppy
- Posted by Jerry Story <jstory at edmc.net> Jun 08, 2003
- 425 views
I gotta problem with writing to the floppy with Linux. The facts are: -- I'm using Mandrake 8.2. -- Reading from floppy is no problem. -- When I try to write to floppy, it seems to start to write but keyboard and mouse go dead, and I can't do anything except reboot. -- Permissions as shown with right click --> properties are okay. -- No problem writing to floppy with Windows NT4. (I transfer stuff from Linux to a Windows directory and then transfer it from Windows to floppy.) What's happening? How can I fix this? Jerry Story
2. Re: Linux versus floppy
- Posted by 1evan at sbcglobal.net Jun 09, 2003
- 424 views
Possibly on a Linux board? Bernie Ryan wrote: > > >Jerry: > If you did not change anything in the config files you should be able to > be reboot and go back to being able to read the floppy. > Have you tried using the KDE or Gnome to use the floppy. > I think Irv uses the same OS that you have, and he maybe able > to help you. I don't have any system running Linux at the > present time so I'am having a hard time trying to remember what > could be your problem. I use RedHat and am not completely > familar with your OS configuration. I can't believe that there > hasn't been anyone else responding to your posts. Where are > all the experts when you need them. > >Bernie > > > >TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! > > -- |\ _,,,---,,_ /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ |,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_)`-'\_)
3. Linux versus floppy
- Posted by Jerry Story <jstory at edmc.net> Jun 09, 2003
- 393 views
irvm at ellijay.com wrote: > > > On Monday 09 June 2003 08:18 am, Jerry Story wrote: > > > > Now it quit working completely. Used to be able to read it, but not > > write to it. Now can't read, can't write, can't fix, don't have a clue. > > Hi Jerry: > > Linux (as did Unix) makes the assumption that the 'user' is not > to be trusted to do things like mount disk drives, etc. > Therefore the stock setup is usually overly paranoid about > who has access to what. > > Here is how I have set things up, and I can read/write VFAT, MSDOS, > EXT2, and Mac disks ok: > > 1. I have the directories /mnt/floppy, /mnt/cdrom, and /mnt/windows. > 2. using applications/file tools/file manager (super user mode) , > look at permissions for /mnt. I have user: root, group: root, and > User: Show Entries, Write Entries, Enter checked. > Group: Show Entries, Enter checked > Others: Show Entries, Enter checked > > Permissions on /mnt/floppy are: User: root, Group: root, > Show Entries, Write Entries, Enter checked for all three (User, Group, > Others) > > Just to be sure, as root, issue: umount /mnt/floppy > > Now, as root, edit /etc/fstab. > The line refering to /mnt/floppy looks like this: > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto users > That will allow you to mount / unmount disks as a user. > > For convenience, I would then right click on the desktop, select > Create New / Floppy Device, give it a name "floppy", and select > from the Device tab Device /dev/fd0 (mnt/floppy). > > Then you should be able to just click on the "floppy" icon and > aujtomatically mount any disk which is in the disk drive, regardless > of the file type. And just drag and drop files there to be stored. > > Remember that disk writes are buffered, so it's necessary to unmount > a disk before removing it. Just right click on the icon and select > "unmount" > from the menu. > > Hope this helps, > Irv This is what I had in my /etc/fstab file: /dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0 I added: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto users Is this correct? Jerry Story
4. Re: Linux versus floppy
- Posted by irvm at ellijay.com Jun 09, 2003
- 400 views
On Monday 09 June 2003 02:28 pm, you wrote: Jerry Story wrote: > This is what I had in my /etc/fstab file: > > /dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/hdb7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 > /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount > dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 > /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/hdb6 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 > /dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > I added: > > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto users > > Is this correct? Yes, but you need to remove the other reference to /mnt/floppy I don't exactly know what supermount is supposed to do, but I can tell you that it doesn't work for me. Regards, Irv
5. Re: Linux versus floppy
- Posted by jbrown105 at speedymail.org Jun 10, 2003
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 03:20:41AM +0000, Jerry Story wrote: <snip> > Now I have two desktop icons for floppy: the original and the one I > made. > > When I click on the original, it brings up Konqueror for floppy but > doesn't show what is on the floppy, and I know the floppy has stuff on > it, and it's not write-protected. > > When I click on the new icon, it doesn't do anything except it gives a > message complaining about no filesystem type specified. > > I think I may have destroyed /dev/fd0. It's still there but it is empty. > > > Jerry Story > try typing this from the command line as root: mount -t msdos -o rw /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ls /mnt/floppy touch /mnt/floppy/testfile.123 If the above fails, then its either a bad floppy, bad floppy drive, bad floppy driver, or bad filesystem driver. jbrown -- /"\ ASCII ribbon | http://www.geocities.com/jbrown1050/ \ / campain against | Linux User:190064 X HTML in e-mail and | Linux Machine:84163 /*\ news, and unneeded MIME |