Re: Cannot mount floppy drive in Squeeze

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:11:40 -0500 (EST), Stephen Powell wrote:

I don't know.  My computer does not have a USB floppy drive, that's true.
It is a traditional AT-style floppy disk controller with two floppy
drives.  And I can no longer reproduce the problem.  Having a floppy
disk in the drive at boot time just once seems to have permanently
cured the problem.  Did a udev rule get created as a result of a
"ready" floppy drive at boot time?  I don't know.  But I don't think
there's much point in filing a bug report if I can no longer reproduce
the problem and I don't know what cured it.

I spoke too soon.  The problem has recurred.  After some more trial-
and-error experimentation, the problem now seems to be GNOME-related.
I can mount and umount the floppy disk UNTIL I logon to GNOME.
Then, things go haywire.  I have been able to circumvent the problem
by commenting out the following entries in /etc/fstab and rebooting:

/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/fd1        /media/floppy1  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0

Now only root can mount and umount floppies.  Since GNOME does not
run with root privileges, it can't mess me up.

I've been systematically deleting the emails in this thread unread. I
was about to do the same with this one when I remembered a
Ubuntu-users thread/rant about floppies where the apparent solution
was to keep the above lines in "/etc/fstab" and mount floppies with
"udisks --mount /dev/fdX". Since Ubuntu's based on a mix of testing
and unstable and uses the Debian udisks package without "ubuntufying"
it...


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