Re: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

From: Matt Morgan (matt.morgan-fedora-list_at_brooklynmuseum.org)
Date: 04/09/04

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    Thanks to Rick and James!

    I figured it out, and it was really pretty dumb. I wanted to follow
    Rick's tip, that the light would be on full-time if I had the cable
    backwards. Since I hadn't seen the light go on ever, I figured, maybe
    it's broken. So I opened up the case, and saw that I'd forgotten to plug
    the floppy drive into power. I guess the moral of this story is,
    hwbrowser may show you hardware that you don't have :-).

    James--I sure wanted to try it with a floppy I knew was working, but 99%
    of the floppies we have around here are USB (long story). I had tried to
    plug one of those in, and it didn't work all by itself, so I decided to
    try a good old-fashioned internal drive. Of which we have very, very
    few. Thanks.

    --Matt

    On 04/09/2004 03:11 PM, James Kosin wrote:

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    > Rick Stevens wrote:
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    > If you use fdformat to format the floppy in Linux, you still need to use
    > mkfs to build a file system on the floppy. Otherwise, you will still
    > get this error, even after the format.
    >
    > /dev/fd0 is only permitted if fdformat knows the format already or can
    > find it out from the floppy.
    >
    > You can use mount /mnt/floppy to try again. Or better still, get a disk
    > you know is good... and try mounting that.
    >
    > Good Luck,
    > James Kosin
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