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Old 11-21-2003, 01:04 PM   #1
jkobrien
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can't mount a blank floppy


Hi,

If I try to mount a blank (formatted) floppy, slack (9.1) won't do it. It sits for a while thinking about it and then announces:

/dev/fd0: Invalid argument
mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified


But if there's a file on it, mounting the very same disk causes no problems at all.

The relevant line in /etc/fstab is:

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user,rw 0 0

I have the very same set-up in a RH system and have no problem mounting blank floppies with it.


Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

John
 
Old 11-21-2003, 01:06 PM   #2
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if you say it's formatted then you could try to format it again and maybe then mounting works?
 
Old 11-24-2003, 06:51 AM   #3
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No, there's nothing wrong with the disk. It's either a bug in Slackware (there's something similar where you can't use a zip drive unless you have a disk in it when you boot up) or something wrong with my set-up.

Thanks for the reply though,

John
 
  


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