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Hello,
After verifying that the recommended line for /etc/fstab is
correct as stated in another website...something like
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,..............etc.
and rebooting so that it should have been executed.
And then issuing the command
udisks --mount /dev/fd0
I get this error message explaining the failure:
"could not mount.../dev/fd0 is not a valid block device.
bill@happy1:/sbin$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400/A] Chipset Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237/VX700 PCI Bridge
00:07.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. KM400/KN400/P4M800 [S3 UniChrome] (rev 01)
bill@happy1:/sbin$ uname -r
2.6.35-32-generic
I recently read the disk using Windows and it has many files, so I'm
pretty sure of the floppy's integrity.
bill@happy1:/mnt/floppy0$ umount /dev/fd0
umount: /dev/fd0 is not mounted (according to mtab)
bill@happy1:/mnt/floppy0$ sudo mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy0
[sudo] password for bill:
mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
bill@happy1:/mnt/floppy0$ dir
----directory has no contents-----
----then I shifted the write-protect tab on the floppy to off-----
bill@happy1:/mnt/floppy0$ sudo mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy0
mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
Sacre Bleu...did it mount or did it not ?? I dunno...
You can not mount or unmount a file system if the current working directory is the mount point in this case /mnt/floppy0). Move up a directory to /mnt (FYI the short cut is cd ..) and try mounting it again. The output of the mount command without any options will display a list of all currently mounted file systems.
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