Help, I've lost my Floppy
OK so I ran a search on google and found one, the first entry, but without any solution. So I was hoping the local guru's here would be able to offer some help....
My floppy drive, which was avalable on the machine a few weeks ago, is gone now. I am not sure what happened to it. I updated my system and since then I have no floppy drive. It doesn't show up in the file browser, and I tried to mount fd0 and that didn't work either saying that there was no device. If anyone could show me the way to troubleshoot this, I would be gratefull. Thanks |
Can you access it from another OS?
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Nope
Thanks for the response, but I don't have another OS on this machine.
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My fstab and mtab show nothing either
Hello all. I tried to load a disk mounter on the panel thinking it would do the work for me, but it told me it couldn't find any device in either the fstab or mtab files. So I looked over the files and noticed no mention of a fd0 there.
Is there some command to get it to see it? It is in the bios setup correctly, and it was here prior to an update. Please help - a floppy is a terrible thing to lose. Kevin |
can you boot a live cd and see if that detects teh drive?
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Try your best to see tha the problem dont' come from your physical device (using another OS or live CD)
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Exactly what line did you use when trying to mount fd0? Try...
# su (log in as root) # mount -t <filesystem-type> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy (assuming /mnt/floppy is an existing directory) You say you "updated your system". Is there a chance your kernel's support for IDE / Floppy devices was broken? |
Try booting the system from a bootable floppy,dont complain that you dont have one ... arrange it.
If system boots then, you have probable have goofed up with /etc/fstab, then try solution as given by seandon4. |
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