Re: [SLUG] Floppy Drive woes - more info

From: Russ Wright (rwrigh10@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 12:52:15 EDT


Yes it was auto and I changed it to vfat. no difference...

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 10:24, Tony A. Lambley wrote:
> 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

-- 
Russ Wright <rwrigh10@tampabay.rr.com>



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