I just installed the retail version of Suse 10.1 and everything is working fine except for the floppy drive. A picture appears on the desktop for the floppy drive, but every time I try and access it, I get a Mount Error: Method "Mount" with signature "ssas" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" doesn't exist


Any ideas on fixing this problem?

My fstab file looks like this:

/dev/sda2____________/____________________reiserfs___acl,user_xattr________1 1
/dev/sda3____________/home________________reiserfs___acl,user_xattr________1 2
/dev/sda1____________swap_________________swap_______defaults______________0 0
proc_________________/proc________________proc_______defaults______________0 0
sysfs________________/sys_________________sysfs______noauto________________0 0
debugfs______________/sys/kernel/debug____debugfs____noauto________________0 0
usbfs________________/proc/bus/usb________usbfs______noauto________________0 0
devpts_______________/dev/pts_____________devpts_____mode=0620,gid=5_______0 0
/dev/fd0_____________/media/floppy________auto_______noauto,user,sync______0 0

*(I ADDED THE "______" LINES TO KEEP THE FORMATTING OF THE 5 SEPARATE COLUMNS)

Thanks

My fstab in Suse 10.0 looks like this for my floppy:

I tried adding that line in and I'm still having the same problem.

That worked! It read the floppy and let me access it, but it wont let me unmount from the gui. When I put a different floppy in the drive, it doesn't recognize the change.

well if you mount it as root, you can only umount it as root.

That tells me that your drive works fine and so does the mounting.
Your fstab must be wrong somewhere...

After you mount your floppy and can see your floppy files, can you just type "mount" and paste the output here? That'll help clue me in on the proper format for your fstab.

Just change floppies and use the reload icon to access the new floppy's files.

crazibri, here's what I got...

/dev/sda2 on / type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
/dev/sda3 on /home type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
/dev/fd0 on /media/floppy type vfat (rw)

Try putting this in your fstab instead:

I tried that and nothing happened.

Well you're in luck. I just installed Suse 10.1.

my new fstab shows:

I would put it back to the way it was. Then once you reboot, try to just click on it. If it doesnt work, you may have to right click, click mount, then try clicking on it. I read this in the release notes that some older drives dont auto mount or unmount because of their design and lack of signalling the OS for media changes.

yeah, my fstab shows the same thing, but it never worked. I tried the right click, mount, but that doesn't work either. This is a brand new drive. i just built this system. I even tried swapping it for another drive I had lying around but still nothing. this is the 3rd time i reinstall suse 10.1 but the problem is always there.

I noticed an update when I first installed suse. it had something to do with Halmount..?? or something like that which, from the notes said, updated the way the system mounts media. It was a recommended update. I'm no linux guru so stop me if I'm wrong, but would that possibly have something to do with this? I don't know much about mounting and such. Thanks for your help.