Well, I'm not exactly a newbie. I've been using Linux for more than 10 years. But I must be doing something wrong. I can't seem to get a floppy disk to mount.
My i386 system has a standard floppy disk controller with two floppy drives: a 3.5-inch high density drive (1.44M in DOS format) and a 5.25-inch high density drive (1.2M in DOS format). I'm trying to mount a double-sided, double density 5.25-inch floppy disk (360K in DOS format) in the 5.25-inch high density drive. I am running the latest Debian Squeeze. As root, I issue the command: mount -t msdos /dev/fd1 /media/floppy1 I receive a warning message FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive! but I'm used to that. That's just a warning. But when I then issue mount with no operands, it does not show the floppy as mounted. And when I try to unmount it with umount /media/floppy1 It tells me that /media/floppy1 is not mounted! When I try to read the data directly with dd if=/dev/fd1 of=erase.me count=1 It successfully reads the boot sector into the file erase.me; so the drive and the disk itself seem to be OK. I tried other disks and also tried 3.5-inch disks in the other floppy drive, but I can't seem to get any floppy disk to mount. Am I doing something wrong? Or is there a bug here? I am running stock Debian kernel 2.6.32-5-686 version 2.6.32-28. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1334865717.850144.1291579640174.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
