Mounting Floppy Drive

[Stoney]

I have a problem with my floppy. It won't mount. I get the following error message:

"mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device."

In the /etc/fstab, the floppy line shows:
"/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto, owner 0 0"

I've replaced the floppy drives, and that doesn't work. Now I'm at a standstill. Any ideas?

Thanks

[Evil Jeff]

Did you recently recompile your kernel?

[Silent Bob]

Is there a disk in the drive? (no offense :))

It gives that error when there is nothing in the drive (among other things)

[uriah.k]

I get that error sometimes, so I put in a different floppy and it mounts. It must just be complaining about certain disks for who knows what reason. It fscking sucks.

[Stoney]

Answer to the questions:
No, I didn't compile the kernel
Yes, I've tried it with several disks and different floppy drives.

Anymore suggestions? It has me stumped....

[Linuxcool]

Go to the /dev directory and see if fd0 is there. If it is, try editing your fstab file entry for the floppy. Change the line to this: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat noauto, owner 0 0. If you want to mount ext2 floppies then change vfat to ext2.

[AllenStone]

Well, after screwing with it for a while, I tried yet another disk, and it works fine. Thanks for the help, but it was looking for that "special disk" I guess. :rolleyes:

[pbharris]

if the disk is ext2 (linux file system) try
mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
if it is a fat (windows file system) you can use mtools (mcopy, mdir, mformat...) or type
mount -t fat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

giving the thing explicit instructions seems to be the best thing for me at times like that.