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Old 08-28-2003, 05:15 PM   #1
weelyjim
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Mounting Floppy Drive


Hi
I have a Dell Latitude CPx with a swapable media bay that allowes me to swap between the CD-ROM and the 3.5 floppy drive, which works fine in Windows 2000.
The trouble is when I swap to running SuSE 8.1 Pro, I cannot get the the floppy drive to mount, please is there any body out there how can tell me how to get the floppy drive working.
 
Old 08-28-2003, 05:26 PM   #2
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If your /etc/fstab is correct, try this. Put a floppy in the drive and command:

mount /mnt/floppy

If that doesn't work, try:

mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

# Managing drives
LNAG - Accessing my drives
Rute - Device Mounting
 
Old 08-29-2003, 02:27 PM   #3
weelyjim
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Hi thanks for replie I will try it out over the weekend, thank you also for the bookmarks.
With thanks Jim
 
  


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