Have you tried changing vfat to auto?
On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 10:20, Russ Wright wrote:
> More info
>
> my fstab entry :
>
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 08:56, Russ Wright wrote:
> > Hey all
> >
> > I just convinced my parents to try Linux on one of their laptops. So I
> > loaded their Toshiba Satellite 2545CDS with Redhat 8.0. The
> > installation recognized nearly everything and it only required a few
> > tweaks to get the sound going.
> >
> > Now the problem. The floppy drive. For some reason it will not work. I
> > can mount a disk *sometimes* but I cannot copy from or write to it. The
> > copy fails with an I/O error.
> >
> > At first I thought it was the floppy but I can boot the system with a
> > DOS boot disk and it works like a charm. I can copy and perform all
> > standard floppy functions. But once I boot Linux the floppy does not
> > work properly.
> >
> > HELP!!! Or I'll have to reload Windoze for them... ugh.
> >
> > Regards
> > Russ
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