I have installed a floppy drive into my Suse 9 system, and am having trouble mounting it. When I click on the floppy icon I get the following message -
Could not mount device.
The reported error was
/dev/fd0: input/output error
mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write protected, mounting read only
/dev:fd0: input/output error
mount: I could not determine the filesystem type and none was specified.

Where am I going wrong and what should I do next?

Is the floppy formatted?

What's in /etc/fstab?

John

Have you tried mounting it from the command line? Open a console session and enter: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

That should mount your floppy, which would then make its contents visible when you click on the floppy icon in your GUI. When you're done with it, unmount the floppy with: umount /mnt/floppy

-- J.W.

Is this a regular floppy drive?

John
The /etc/fstab reads -
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy. auto. noauto,user,sync 0 0

Hi Nigel,

Ok, then, from the command line, try "mount /dev/fd0" or "mount /media/floppy".
As J.W. says, unmount before removing the disk from the drive with the command "umount <whichever_you_used_above>".

I've never used SUSE, so what you have in your fstab may be specific to that distro, but if the above doesn't work, you could try changing the line to...

/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0

... (i.e. the dots are changed to spaces or tabs), and then try again.

Also, if you know that the floppy has been formatted, and works, in a MS-Win machine, you could try changing the first "auto" to "vfat".

All this stuff is explained in "man fstab" if you want to better understand what's going on.

John