what is the device name for a floppy drive?

joseph2020 · 05-01-2009, 05:38 PM

I want to mount my floppy drive using fstab.

My root drive is sda1, my second drive is sdb1, my cdrom is scd0...what is the designation for the floppy drive? sfd0?

thanks in advance.

forrestt · 05-01-2009, 05:39 PM

Usually it is "/dev/fd0". However, there is often a link to "/dev/floppy".

HTH

Forrest

R.Bucky · 05-01-2009, 09:01 PM

you could always use

Code:

cat /etc/fstab

to see what hardware is attached or use

Code:

sudo lshw

to learn about all of your hardware.

joseph2020 · 05-01-2009, 11:07 PM

forrestt, Thank you for your reply.

here's my fstab:

Code:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=7fbaa41e-4a01-4e9f-b1ea-52ba308beda4 /               ext3    relatime,erro$
# /dev/sda5
UUID=a497b290-d628-444d-b12f-2a1e99c97c4f none            swap    sw           $
#/dev/scd0   /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
/dev/scd0    /media/cdrom  auto   user,noauto,owner,ro  0   0
#/dev/sdc1   media/backdrive  ext3  defaults    0  0
/dev/sdb1   /media/backdrive  ext2  defaults    0  0
/dev/fd0    /media/floppy     auto  user,noauto,owner    0  0  <------ line I added for floppy

and here's /media

Quote:

joe@joe-desktop:~$ ls /media

backdrive cdrom cdrom0 floppy

joe@joe-desktop:~$

I looked in /etc/dev and there is no entry for fd0, but there is one for fd...is fd the floppy drive name?

I still cannot access the floppy... Why isn't the floppy drive being mounted?

Thanks again

R.Bucky · 05-01-2009, 11:23 PM

The standard method for manually mounting a device is to first create the directory that you want to access that device.

Code:

sudo mkdir /media/floppy

Next, manually mount the device. In your case it would be

Code:

sudo mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy

That should do it.

Another note; the /etc/dev directory will not have a directory link to your drive. It will be mounted at the /media/floppy

joseph2020 · 05-02-2009, 12:01 AM

R.Bucky:

Quote:

The standard method for manually mounting a device is to first create the directory that you want to access that device.

Did that before, Here's /media:

backdrive cdrom cdrom0 floppy

Quote:

Next, manually mount the device. In your case it would be

Code: sudo mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy

I tried that:

Quote:

joe@joe-desktop:~$ sudo mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
[sudo] password for joe:
mount: special device /dev/fd0 does not exist
joe@joe-desktop:~$

Thanks for trying, but problem persists

joseph2020 · 05-03-2009, 02:50 AM

My last post on this topic...Thank you all who replied. It is appreciated.

onebuck · 05-03-2009, 07:57 AM

Hi,

You could open a terminal and login as 'root'. From the console cli do a 'mount /dev/fdo /media/floppy'. If this works then be sure your users are in the proper groups.

For your 'fstab' entry for the 'fd0' try;

Code:

/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner     0   0

mishkind · 05-03-2009, 09:16 AM

Hi,
First you need to identify the device file for your floppy. Try: dmesg | grep -i floppy.
output From my Fedora installation:
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M

This means my device file is /dev/fd0
Now I can mount it with:
mount /dev/fd0 <target dir> - with root permissions.