[WBEL-users] Diskette drive problems

[Conor Wynne]

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On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 21:47, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I have only tried using the diskette drive twice.
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> The first time, I was at the base install, logged in as a user.
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> The diskette icon came up, but I could not copy files to the diskette.  A=
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> I could not eject the diskette.  In the end, I had to reboot.
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> So now a few weeks later, I am logged in as root.  I put a diskette in th=
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> drive and nothing happens.
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> Any suggestions?

dmesg |grep floppy

Put diskette into drive which contains files
# mount /dev/fd0 (any errors?)
# mount 	(check its mounted)
ls -l /mnt/floppy=20
any files on it?

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Conor Wynne
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