[Leaplist] Floppy problem in Lenny - Debian-am

[Whit Hansell]

Aaron Morrison wrote:
>
> On 11 Jul 2007, at 11:51, Whit Hansell wrote:
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>> Thanks again Richard.
>>
>>
>> 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
>>>
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> [snip]
>
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>> brightsun:/# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0
>> mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
>>
>> Again, rats!
>
>
> Try mounting with /dev/fd0u1440 which might help persuade mount that 
> the device is seeing a 1.44MB floppy.
>
> Worth a try...
>
> --am
>
Hi Aaron,

brightsun:/# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0u1440 /media/floppy0
mount: special device /dev/fd0u1440 does not exist

brightsun:/# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0u1440 /media/floppy0
mount: special device /dev/fd0u1440 does not exist

Rasslefrassle!

Thanks for the input.   I hadn't done that one yet but was aware of it.  
Just kept forgetting to look at it.  But...... it didn't seem to want to 
work either.  Shoot!

Whit