[Leaplist] Floppy problem in Lenny - Debian

[Richard F. Ostrow Jr.]

Hmm... looks like you've covered a lot of the basics. Having "floppy" in
your lsmod shows that you have the floppy module loaded. Can you post the
result of the following (shortly after booting)?

dmesg | grep fd

Getting an exact message may help things somewhat.

Never heard of kfloppy... then again, I don't tend to use graphical tools
for much of anything - I'm a command-line guy myself. Verify that you have
the msdos, vfat, and fat modules available (check lsmod - if you don't see
them, modprobe them and try again. Mount should automatically do this if
they are available, but it's possible that they don't exist).
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On Tue, July 10, 2007 2:16 pm, Whit Hansell wrote:
> Hey guys,
> I'm kerstukin.  I'm running Lenny(testing) on an AMD Sempron box and
> cannot get my floppy to work at all.  I have, on the same box, another
> drive w. WXP on it and the floppy works just fine.  The floppy is
> recognized in the BIOS as a 1.44   3.5", which it is.
>
> The main statement I get is that the filesystem can't be found when I
> use the KDE floppy icon which I think is kfloppy.  And I have mtools
> installed and it just tells me it is not a DOS floppy and needs to be
> formatted first.  I've tried to format it using the kfloppy icon and
> after it goes thru all the formatting and tries to close and finalize
> the format it gives me an error stating that a fatal error occurred and
> that the format failed.  I've gone CL and used mount -t [msdos or vfat
> or auto] at various times w. /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 - one or the other
> and both and they have all failed.  Error: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a
> valid block device
>
> My original fstab statement was/is:
>
>  /dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
>
> I added the same lines just for grins w. msdos and one for ext3, too.
> But no joy.  It makes no difference.  I also added an etc/filesystems
> file w. msdos, vfat and a whole bunch of other filesystem types too but
> that didn't help either.
>
> In the /media directory, I have both floppy and floppy0, but floppy0 is
> what was set up in fstab so have not extensively tested floppy, yet.
> But have done mount requests a couple of times using it instead of
> floppy0 and it still didn't work.  The error w. the mount command was
> again:  mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
>
> lsmod shows:
> floppy                 52004  0
>
> It seems like it can't find the first sector of any of the floppies I
> use and I have used a bunch of 'em.  I have swapped out three different
> floppy drives too and it makes no difference.
>
> I've googled and dogpiled and checked forums and everything I can think
> of and have not found the answer to this problem.  I am having it also
> on another machine w. sarge on it but have not done the extensive
> testing on it that I have on this one.  dmesg recognized it as a 1.44
> floppy and then there is another line which says it is a post 1991?
> drive and gives some number like 82077 or something like that.  I don't
> remember but it doesn't say anything about loading the driver that I can
> see but don't know if it is supposed to.
>
> Anyway, if anyone has found this problem and fixed it or has any good
> ideas please let me know.  I have a digital camera, a Sony Mavica which
> uses a floppy for it's data capture/transfer and I would really like to
> be able to use it w. Linux instead of being forced to use WXP and
> emailing them to me via Yahoo or whoever.
>
> TIA  I appreciate any help you can give.  aGain, thanks so much.  I'm
> stumped and I've spent many hours playing around and gotten nowhere.
>
> Whit
>
>
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