what is the device name for a floppy drive?
I want to mount my floppy drive using fstab.
My root drive is sda1, my second drive is sdb1, my cdrom is scd0...what is the designation for the floppy drive? sfd0? thanks in advance. |
Usually it is "/dev/fd0". However, there is often a link to "/dev/floppy".
HTH Forrest |
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you could always use
Code:
cat /etc/fstab Code:
sudo lshw |
I give up, what am i doing wrong this time?
forrestt, Thank you for your reply.
here's my fstab: Code:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information. Quote:
I still cannot access the floppy... Why isn't the floppy drive being mounted? Thanks again |
mount floppy
The standard method for manually mounting a device is to first create the directory that you want to access that device.
Code:
sudo mkdir /media/floppy Code:
sudo mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy Another note; the /etc/dev directory will not have a directory link to your drive. It will be mounted at the /media/floppy |
R.Bucky:
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My last post on this topic...Thank you all who replied. It is appreciated.
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Hi,
You could open a terminal and login as 'root'. From the console cli do a 'mount /dev/fdo /media/floppy'. If this works then be sure your users are in the proper groups. For your 'fstab' entry for the 'fd0' try; Code:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 |
Hi,
First you need to identify the device file for your floppy. Try: dmesg | grep -i floppy. output From my Fedora installation: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M This means my device file is /dev/fd0 Now I can mount it with: mount /dev/fd0 <target dir> - with root permissions. |
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