Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-19 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:49:27 +0200 Tomas Kral wrote: Hello Tomas, > Ordinary floppy, then. > Sorry for confusing it. NP. At least now you know for sure, and can alter your config to suit. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediatel

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/18/2011 1:39 PM, Tomas Kral wrote: > On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 11:42 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> On 7/16/2011 3:52 AM, Tomas Kral wrote: >> >>> linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-35 >>> >>> $ su -c'mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0' # or >>> $ mount /floppy >> >>> [ 8744.146621] FAT: utf8 is not a re

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-18 Thread Tomas Kral
On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 21:27 +0200, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:39:03 +0200 > Tomas Kral wrote: > > Hello Tomas, > > > I think it is an IDE floppy, it has got a ribbon cable attaching it to > > the main board. > > Further to what Lisi says; > > How many pins has the connector/ca

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-18 Thread Tomas Kral
On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 11:42 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 7/16/2011 3:52 AM, Tomas Kral wrote: > > > linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-35 > > > > $ su -c'mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0' # or > > $ mount /floppy > > > [ 8744.146621] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT > > filesyste

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:39:03 +0200 Tomas Kral wrote: Hello Tomas, > I think it is an IDE floppy, it has got a ribbon cable attaching it to > the main board. Further to what Lisi says; How many pins has the connector/cable got? If it's a 40 way cable, then yes, it's IDE. If fewer than 40, it'

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-18 Thread Lisi
On Monday 18 July 2011 19:39:03 Tomas Kral wrote: > I think it is an IDE floppy, it has got a ribbon cable attaching it to > the main board. "Normal" floppies have a ribbon cable. Is the ribbon cable attached to yours an *IDE* ribbon cable? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-18 Thread Tomas Kral
On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 11:42 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 7/16/2011 3:52 AM, Tomas Kral wrote: > > > linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-35 > > > > $ su -c'mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0' # or > > $ mount /floppy > > > [ 8744.146621] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT > > filesyste

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-18 Thread Tomas Kral
On Sun, 2011-07-17 at 20:58 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: > Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > May I recommend sidestepping this entirely? ... The "mtools" > > toolkit is vastly more efficient and safer, ... > > +1 on the use of mtools. It is definitely a good solution. > > However if someone is wanting

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-18 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:57:46PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Tomas Kral wrote: >> >> May I recommend sidestepping this entirely? Mounted floppy drives have >> *HORRIBLE* performance. > > Huh?  A mounte

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-18 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:57:46PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Tomas Kral wrote: > > May I recommend sidestepping this entirely? Mounted floppy drives have > *HORRIBLE* performance. Huh? A mounted floppy should have vastly superior performance to mtools, p

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:42:05 -0400 (EDT), Walter Hurry wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:51:34 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >> ... >> You can disable GNOME from automatically mounting inserted media. Open >> up the gconf-editor, navigate through to the >> /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount variab

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-17 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:51:34 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > You can disable GNOME from automatically mounting inserted media. Open > up the gconf-editor, navigate through to the > /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount variable and disable it. I > also disable media_automount_open and media_auto

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > May I recommend sidestepping this entirely? ... The "mtools" > toolkit is vastly more efficient and safer, ... +1 on the use of mtools. It is definitely a good solution. However if someone is wanting to mount the device then it is probably because they want to use a

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Stephen Powell wrote: > Tomas Kral wrote: > > Is it possible to make mount aware of UDisks/devices/fd0 and the like? > > Remember, "mount" was here first, and "udisks" is a recent thing. > Under the covers, udisks is no doubt calling mount. The problem > arose because makers of graphical desktop

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-17 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Tomas Kral wrote: > > Yes, this one did the trick... > > tcat@lynx:~$ udisks --mount /dev/fd0 > Mounted /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/fd0 at /media/floppy0 > > Thanks a lot. > > Is it possible to make mount aware of UDisks/devices/fd0 and the like? > > On my sys

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:58:27 -0400 (EDT), Tomas Kral wrote: > On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 15:40 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: >> ... >> Issue "man udisks" for more information. > > Yes, this one did the trick... > > tcat@lynx:~$ udisks --mount /dev/fd0 > Mounted /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/fd0 at /m

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-17 Thread Tomas Kral
On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 15:40 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 06:22:40 -0400 (EDT), Dom wrote: > > On 16/07/11 09:52, Tomas Kral wrote: > >> Hello list, > >> > >> Just found out I cannot mount floppies in Squeeze. > >> I am on uptodate x86 kernel, > >> linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/16/2011 5:22 AM, Dom wrote: > I've had to build a custom kernel for some of my old systems that *need* > IDE support. I think what you meant to say is "systems that need the old IDE drivers, because the hardware doesn't work with libata drivers". Libata provides IDE support for most legacy

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-16 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Tomas Kral wrote: > > Just found out I cannot mount floppies in Squeeze. > I am on uptodate x86 kernel, > linux-image-2.6.32-5-686  2.6.32-35 > > $ su -c'mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0' # or > $ mount /floppy > > Puts out in messages ... > [ 8744.146621] FAT: utf8 i

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 06:22:40 -0400 (EDT), Dom wrote: > On 16/07/11 09:52, Tomas Kral wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> Just found out I cannot mount floppies in Squeeze. >> I am on uptodate x86 kernel, >> linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-35 >> >> $ su -c'mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0' # or >> $ mount /f

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-16 Thread Dom
On 16/07/11 09:52, Tomas Kral wrote: Hello list, Just found out I cannot mount floppies in Squeeze. I am on uptodate x86 kernel, linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-35 $ su -c'mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0' # or $ mount /floppy Puts out in messages ... [ 8744.146621] FAT: utf8 is not a recommende

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/16/2011 3:52 AM, Tomas Kral wrote: > linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-35 > > $ su -c'mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0' # or > $ mount /floppy > [ 8744.146621] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT > filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive! > > But no floppy is really mounte