Can't Mount External (USB) Floppy Drive
Hi All,
Using Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and I can't seem to be able to mount my USB floppy drive. When I plug in activity light blinks but drive won't mount. I have the discmounter utility in the panel and the drive shows there as unmounted if I choose mount option nothing happens. When I disconect drive an error message pops up. Below is a link to screen shot to to illustrate the error message. Any suggestions. http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...reenshot-1.png Thanks P.S. All other external drives (USB) mount automatically, no problem. |
Anybody? Please
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try the manual mount.
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fdisk -l use the Code:
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy or Code:
man mount |
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which should be the proper command for mounting drive in Ubuntu. No good get error about mount point being busy. Ubuntu uses /media directory for mounting drives. |
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frankgolden@frankgolden-laptop:~$ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdc /media/floppy2 mount: /dev/sdc already mounted or /media/floppy2 busy frankgolden@frankgolden-laptop:~$ see link to new screen shot showing contents of /media/floppy while drive is plugged in. When drive is unplugged folder disapears. http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...creenshot1.png |
the screenshot doesnot offers much help. does ubuntu automounts? it seems the device is already mounted somewhere. it could also be that it is mounted but is empty. in the shell type the command 'mount' and it will show you what is mounted where. you can post the output here.
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All other drives are USB 2.0 devices and mount in a few seconds. This is a 1.1 USB floppy drive. Maybe that is why the delay. Anyway I wasn't being patient enough. Sorry to waste your time like this Prozac. I guess the reason our commands were returning errors was that pmount was busy trying to mount drive. I am used to things happening quickly on this machine. Thanks for your help. |
Update: Problem Fixed
Hi All,
Edited fstab added line: /dev/sdc /media/floppy msdos noauto,user,rw,defaults 0 0 sdc is the name of drive when it is the first/only USB device plugged in to my computer. I did have to mkdir /media/floppy. I now have a icon in Computer called floppy regardless of whether the external drive is plugged in or not. However when I plug in my external drive a new icon appears called External Floppy Drive: floppy. When I insert a disk the drive mounts automatically in about 20 seconds with full R/W priveleges. Don't know why problem. I have submitted bug report. |
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