Re: Floppy Drive Gone NOT SOLVED
From: Steve Croteau (stevecroteau_at_comcast.net)
Date: 07/26/05
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To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:40:08 -0700
On Monday 25 July 2005 3:13 pm, taharka wrote:
> Skol!!
>
> Steve Croteau wrote:
> >Greetings,
> >
> >>I was just minding my own business the other day when I decided to write
> >> a file to my floppy drive using FC3. Much to my surprise the icon I
> >> always found under "computer" was gone. Looked in /etc/fstab and found
> >> no reference. I had just used it 2 weeks ago. Could an update have
> >> removed it
> >>
> >>for some reason? The same thing happened to my other FC3 box. What is
> >> the exact entry I need to put this back into /etc/fstab?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Steve
> >
> >I re-entered the floppy drive in /etc/fstab using the same settings as the
> > CD and Burner. Now it works great on both boxes.
> >
> >/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto
> >pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,managed 0 0
> >/dev/hdd /media/cdrecorder auto
> >pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,managed 0 0
> >/dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto
> >pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,managed 0 0
> >
> >Thanks for the help!
> >Steve
>
> Odd, I just followed this procedure & tried mounting a floppy with the
> "mount /media/floppy " command. I got an on screen message stating no
> mount point found for floppy. However, after creating the /floppy
> directory in /media, it now works. Lastly, after rebooting the computer,
> I found that the settings in fstab don't stick :-( I had to perform this
> procedure over to get the floppy drive working again. Mind rebooting one
> of your boxes & see what happens?
>
> taharka
>
> Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
OK, I'm a fool! The first time I rebooted it was fine (at least I thought it
was because it worked). I just took your suggestion, rebooted, and it's
gone. I noticed that there is an /etc/fstab~ file in addition to a new
etc/fstab file. In the new /etc/fstab file my 'floppy' entry is gone. It's
still in the backup file if that's what the ~ means.
If HAL (I have no idea what that is) is managing this device and the kernel
support is broken then maybe we should use a simplier entry like:
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto,rw,noauto,user,sync 0 0
This entry was suggested earlier by Peter.
Also, I forgot to mention in my previous post that I too had to create
the /media/floppy directory.
Steve
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