On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:54 AM, David W Noon <dwn...@ntlworld.com> wrote: >> On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:59:52 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote about >> "[gentoo-user] Mounting floppy disks": >> >>>For some reason, when I mount floppy disk (standard HD 3.5" VFAT disk) >> >> Floppies are normally formatted as FAT12, not VFAT. > > Eh. I've seen FAT16 and FAT32 on 1.44MB floppies. > > Anyway, Paul should try > > file -s /dev/fd0 > > and > > mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
Yes, that's what I've tried, and variations of -t auto and -t msdos and -t vfat. So it was simply not working as expected... I'm not at home now so I can't test, but I believe I've found the explanation and probably the answer: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338185 It seems udisks:0 is unmounting my floppy as soon as I've mounted it. There are various workarounds, ultimately removal of udisks:0 should make the problem go away, but that is impossible at the moment because I still have packages which depend on it. It seems Gentoo devs are actively in the process of trying to eliminate udisks:0 so the problem won't last forever. Until then there are work-arounds described in the bug report that I can use. I will try when I'm at home and provide an update then. Thanks for your help.
