Can not read a floppy in Ubuntu version 10.04
The floppy shows up when I go Places>computer>floppy but, when I click on "floppy drive" I get the message "can not mount floppy".
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You do have a diskette with a file system on it in the drive? Are you sure that the diskette is good? Can you mount the diskette manually? Do you need to be super user in buntu to mount a diskette? |
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Ubuntu 10.04.x : /etc/fstab :
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/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 ... Then you can watch /media/floppy0/ in your file manager. Ubuntu decided a long time ago, that nobody use floppy any more. Ubuntu 8.10 : No /dev/floppy*. ('sudo MAKEDEV floppy' was required.) And no kernel module (floppy.ko) loaded by default. So actually Ubuntu 10.04 is an improvement : Only one manual action is required. . |
Solved, after a fashion. Now I can read a floppy in Ubuntu 10.04 using the following procedure:
Place a disk in the drive, open the terminal then type udisks --mount /dev/fd0 close the terminal and go to the desktop, the Floppy 0 drive should now be shown; just click on it and the floppy directory will show up. You can not read a second disk though unless you first unmount the floppy and then go back to the terminal, insert the next floppy and repeat the process all over again. |
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