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Old 05-30-2006, 11:19 PM   #1
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suse 9.1 could not enter folder/media/floppy


I've been using Suse 9.1 for a couple of months, and nothing going wrong to acces my floppy drive, but today, it was give me an error :

could not enter folder/media/floppy

can someone help me ?

below is my fstab :
/dev/hdc5 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hdc7 /data1 auto auto,user 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /windows/C vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdc8 /windows/D vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdc6 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=ut f8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
 
Old 05-30-2006, 11:27 PM   #2
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try /mnt/floppy folder?
 
Old 05-30-2006, 11:38 PM   #3
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when i've tried to mount /mnt/floppy or /mnt/media, it give me an error :

mount : can't find mnt/floppy in etc/fstab or /etc/mtb
 
Old 05-30-2006, 11:46 PM   #4
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/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
this line is in your fstab, so you should be able to access the floppy device (fd0) in the /mnt/floppy folder. run 'mount /mnt/floppy -v' or -V. copy and paste your command you ran and the exact output.
 
Old 05-31-2006, 12:10 AM   #5
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Just done that, it stated that count not enter folder /mnt/floopy
 
Old 05-31-2006, 12:20 AM   #6
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can you cd to it as root?
 
Old 05-31-2006, 12:27 AM   #7
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yes, when i ls, it said that "no medium found"
 
Old 05-31-2006, 02:22 AM   #8
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ok, let's hear...Yesterday, im installing vmware server to my pc..after that this things was happen, i cannot access my floppy, now im just uninstalling that vmware....and guess what...i can access my floppy drive once again, and i dont know what's going wrong here.., anyone knows ? anyway, thanks very much nadroj for help...
 
  


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