-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Please learn to quote if you expect anybody else to wade though this thread to help. Top posting is considered harmful. http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:06:35PM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: > Thank you, I did as you say but my floppy is still not working. > The message is > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, > or too many mounted file systems > > When I can shut down my machine I will boot up with knoppix to see > if it is a hardware problem. It may be a hardware problem, but not with the floppy drive. The hardware most likely to be suspect is the floppy disk itself. They go bad all the time. Here's what else I would try: 1) Try mounting a different floppy disk. If this works, the drive is good and the other floppy is probably dead. If this doesn't work, you might want to try rebooting if you haven't since you changed your fstab. I can't remember right now if changes to fstab are immediate or wait until the next reboot. If it still doesn't work with any floppies, your drive may be flaky or all your floppies died at the same time, which wouldn't surprise me. (Most floppies on the market have been moldering away in warehouses since the mid to late 1990s before they reach the stores these days, and it would surprise me if anybody still is making them and not just working off a surplus). 2) Try mounting the questionable floppy in another computer, preferrably on it's native OS if possible. If it reads there, then you might not have the right filesystem module loaded into the kernel. If it's a Windows formatted disk, try modprobe vfat as root then give it another go. 3) If nothing works, and you're using the default kernel, then there's probably something wrong with your floppy drive. If you compiled on your own, make sure you have the necissary options turned on. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+6CxVJ5vLSqVpK2kRAiGaAKDGrvpFWiQ7jju9QXw7ySNAr54dUQCcDf5x NZIFJ1UjElnJ1LaFUZ+Zbcs= =G2lC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
