[WBEL-users] Diskette drive problems

[Conor Wynne]

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On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 13:59, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> At 06:17 PM 10/27/2004, Conor Wynne wrote:
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> >dmesg |grep floppy
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> >Put diskette into drive which contains files
> ># mount /dev/fd0 (any errors?)
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> no, and floppy icon appeared.
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> ># mount         (check its mounted)
> >ls -l /mnt/floppy
> >any files on it?
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> yes.

So its likely OK. try booting off a floppy diskette to be sure.=20

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> I used the icon's eject, removed the floppy and put in an empty, formatte=
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> floppy.
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> mount
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> did not show the floppy.  I did the mount /dev/fd0
> the icon appeared, but since I got an error on the mount
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> dev/fd0:  Invalid Arguement
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> I could not tell if the icon appeared before I completed rerunning mount =
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> as a result of the mount.
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> I am now copying files to the diskette.  Further testing is needed to see=
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> if the auto mount is now working.  Or perhaps someone can tell me how to=20
> look for the automount....

You can configure autofs by editing two files.
Here is mine - SUN JDS2 based, but it works the same way:

daddy@snowwhite:~> cat /etc/auto.master
# $Id: auto.master,v 1.1 2001/04/17 11:43:02 arvin Exp arvin $

/misc           /etc/auto.misc
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daddy@snowwhite:~> cat /etc/auto.misc
# $Id: auto.misc,v 1.1 2001/04/17 11:43:02 arvin Exp arvin $
# This is an automounter map and it has the following format
# key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location
# Details may be found in the autofs(5) manpage
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camera          -fstype=3Dauto,rw         :/dev/sda1
usbkey          -fstype=3Dauto,rw         :/dev/sda1
share          	-fstype=3Dnfs,rw,nosync   p3000:/home/share
lucky           -fstype=3Dnfs,rw,nosync   p3000:/var/Stuff/duke
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cdrom          	-fstype=3Dauto,ro         :/dev/cdrom
floppy         	-fstype=3Dauto,sync       :/dev/fd0

Save & exit, then=20

# service autofs restart
# chkconfig autofs on

Then simply cd to /misc/floppy and it will mount the volume.
If you wish to cd normal user, add appropriate entries into /etc/fstab.
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$ man fstab (for examples)

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Conor Wynne
Dublin,
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