[Leaplist] Floppy problem in Lenny - Debian

[Cecil Hornbaker]

Are you sure the floppy being inserted is formatted?

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 08:35 -0400, Richard F. Ostrow Jr. wrote:
> On Tue, July 10, 2007 4:39 pm, Whit Hansell wrote:
> > Richard,
> > Thanks for replying.  I appreciate it.
> >
> > brightsun:/# dmesg | grep fd
> > mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
> > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> 
> Ok, that's clear proof that the kernel did load a floppy
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Good, that means the modules are available if needed (mount would
> auto-load them as needed).
> 
> >
> > 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
> 
> Interesting... If this were a kernel that you compiled yourself, I'd
> recommend verifying that you have codepage 437 compiled in... but I can't
> imagine that anyone would release a kernel with a distro without that, and
> I'd tend to think you'd be running into all sorts of other problems if
> that were the case. I'm going to keep this possibility at the back of my
> mind as we try other things...
> 
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Pretty clear it's not reading correctly... the question is why?
> 
> >
> > brightsun:/# mount /dev/fd0
> > mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> 
> What's in your /etc/fstab file for the floppy? You can get that pretty
> quick with a "grep fd0 /etc/fstab".
> 
> Also, try the following and see if it works:
> 
> "mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0"
> 
> Maybe the fs is incorrect?
> 
> >
> > brightsun:/# mount msdos /dev/fd0
> > mount: special device msdos does not exist
> 
> That's an invalid mount command. At the least, you need a -t to define the
> type (msdos).
> 
> >
> > 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
> 
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