I have just about got SUSE 10.3 sussed for mounting and fstab editing.
Now I have just changed to SUSE 11, I find it excellent, cept it does not seem to recognise the floppy drive, at all, & I can't mount a usbstick.
Here is a my fstab & fdisk contents. I know that the floppy drive works OK, as I can boot from it, it also works well with another HDD with windows on it, so it must be SUSE 11 which is funny

fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1da3b08c

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 263 2873 20972857+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2874 19457 133210980 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 4009 MB, 4009754624 bytes
216 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1133 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 6912 * 512 = 3538944 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 1134 3915760 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)



fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_MDT_MD1600JS-00_MDT-MCANM2529567-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0

/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_MDT_MD1600JS-00_MDT-MCANM2529567-part2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1

/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_MDT_MD1600JS-00_MDT-MCANM2529567-part3 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2

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


these two following lines I have added
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbstick vfat noauto,user,sync 0 0

With these lines in 10.3, I get icons on the desktop for the floppy disk & the usbstick, they both automount when a disk is plugged in, I am not getting this with SUSE 11.

As you can see the floppy drive is not recognised in both fdisk & fstab,
I can't see a folder named floppy in dev, I have made a folder in
mnt - usbstick. The usbstick is recognised in fdisk as /dev/sdb1
When I enter - mount /dev/sdb1 mnt/usbstick in a root console I get msg -mount: mount point mnt/usbstick does not exist. If I enter
Mount /dev/sdb /mnt/usbstick I get a msg - must secify the file system, but this command works perfectly with 10.3.
Why on earth does every new edition of suse seem to work differently,
when I changed from Suse 10.1 to 10.3 I had similar probs, I got it sorted with help from this forum. Now it seems I have to start over.
Can any one help me please, thanks.

hi,

in SUSE 10.3 I used the following command: /sbin/modprobe floppy to set floppy to work. Maybe you should try it.

Hi riba 43, I tried that and got the message
FATAL: Module floppy not found.
I suppose this means that SUSE can't find the floppy drive.
I know that the drive is there and works ok, as I said in my post.
Thanks.

Thanks for help, I have the USB problem solved now.
I still can't find out why my system does not recognise my Floppy Disk Drive. I know that it works OK, as using another HDD with Win XP the Floppy works faultlessly, fdisk does not find it, is this a problem with SUSE 11 ?

Will 11.0 find its own way? I have put a storage media applet onto my panel in SUSE 11.0. Another possibility is to right click and "create new" "link to device" on your desktop, putting a floppy icon there. Maybe a permanent link would help.