[Leaplist] Floppy problem in Lenny - Debian

[Whit Hansell]

Richard,
Thanks for replying.  I appreciate it.

brightsun:/# dmesg | grep fd
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M


As to lsmod,  I got nfs, ext3, and of course a bunch more but no msdos, 
or vfat or fat.  So I did as you suggested and ran modprobe msdos, 
modprobe vfat and now at the top of the new lsmod list I get:

brightsun:/# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
vfat                   11648  0
msdos                   8576  0
fat                    45980  2 vfat,msdos
     etc.........

So now I show these modules, I guess, available?

So I just popped in a floppy to the drive and

brightsun:/# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

brightsun:/# dmesg | tail
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev fd0.
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev fd0.

brightsun:/# mount /dev/fd0
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

brightsun:/# mount msdos /dev/fd0
mount: special device msdos does not exist

I really don't understand this stuff.  I don't know what I am looking at 
specifically so can't tell the drivers or modules loaded or not or what 
is going on.  I really appreciate your looking at it for me.  Maybe we 
can get it figured out.

What do you think?  TIA

Whit


Richard F. Ostrow Jr. wrote:
> 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).
>