Mounting an Atari ST floppy on tumbleweed

JZL240I-U · 12-10-2017, 10:42 AM

Specs of my machine are in my signature. I physically added a 3,5 inch floppy drive and activated it in the BIOS, specifying a 720 kB capacity (standard for Atari). The "floppy" kernel module is inserted. Atari's implementation of the MS-Dos FAT specifications is faulty but most drivers could read the floppies anyhow in the old times

. When I insert a floppy nothing happens (control lamp doesn't flicker either). Running "dolphin" and clicking on floppy yields:

Quote:

During access to „Floppy“ an error occurred: Error mounting /dev/fd0 at /run/media/me/disk: Command-line `mount -t "auto" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/fd0" "/run/media/me/disk"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: /run/media/me/disk: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device.

Not a valid block device is also the error when I try to mount manually. /dev/fd0 exists, though. How to proceed best?

yancek · 12-11-2017, 08:29 AM

What's on the floppy and what format, filesystem type?

DavidMcCann · 12-11-2017, 11:01 AM

When you tried to mount manually, did you still use auto? If you specified fat, did you specify 16-bit? I suspect that the system needs all the help it can get with a TOS disk!

JZL240I-U · 12-13-2017, 11:24 AM

There are some text files on the floppy, file system is fat, but the Atari / TOS version with initially two aberrant bytes (don't remember all the details).

Yes, I used auto. How to specify 16 bit fat? I tried "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt" and got "mount: /mnt: /dev/fd0 is no valid block-device"...