floppy hangs limp in mandrake 8.1

[sasKuatch]

no pun intended, it's on an external cable

after installing mandrake 8.1 on my dell laptop, i can't mount the floppy. it worked fine for the install, i can even boot linux off of it, but i can't mount it once i'm in, it say something like this:

[ root@notebook.home.xom /mnt/floppy ]mount /mnt/floppy
mount: /dev/fd0: unknown devie
[ root@notebook.home.xom /mnt/floppy ]huh?
bash: huh?: command not found
[ root@notebook.home.xom /mnt/floppy ]

well, you get the point, but what really throws me is that i worked fine with RH 7.0? thanks in advance

[Lorithar]

??
one. don't try to mount a device to a directory you are in ... it will almost always fail.

two ..
cat /proc/devices to see if the floppy has been found .... you note that a) you can boot off it and b)it worked for the install.

try mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy -t auto
msdos

1) to boot from it you used the bios NOT the operating system.

2) its possible that you have a slightly *different* device than /dev/fd0 ... perhaps it is attached via pcmcia and you did not build in the modules? .. or the device name is something other than /dev/fd0

[ 29 October 2001: Message edited by: Lorithar ]

[sasKuatch]

well, i'm pretty sure i have tried mounting it from outside that dir, like /home/rob including the /dev/fd0 thingy withthe options

1)no it's not pcmcia, i can attach it either by parallel port, or a removable drive bay it shares with the cdrom (which works fine from that bay)

2)i don't think the installer uses the bios, i had the option of creating an autoinstall floppy

3)it worked fine on /dev/fd0 in Redhat 7.0, don't see why it would be a different device this time around

i am clueless, thanks for the help though :confused:

[bdg1983]

What does 'ls -al /dev/fd0' show?

brw-rw-rw- 1 root root 2, 0 Apr 27 2001 /dev/fd0

Does it exist and is it a block device (the 'b' at the beginning)?

If it does exist, then insert a dos/win diskette and

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

The mountpoint /floppy must exist in the /mnt directory first.

[sasKuatch]

it exists alright, the kernel sees it when it first wakes up, but it says the i/o address is already taken (for this i would probably suspect alsa)

is their any way i can change this?

[camelrider]

If it is running on your paralell(sp) port maybe it's on /dev/lp?