/dev/fd0 does not exist. I have floppy disks I wish to use.m using debian unstable.Nautilus doesn't recognize it, nor does dolphin. I have no clue if the floppies are formatted or not.fdisk -l only sees sda, my hard drive.Floppies are so neat! I want to use them in linux.
View 12 RepliesIs there something weird about the FLOPPY DRIVE on F12? Nothing associated with it works & I can't get an icon for it. Also the FLOPPY FORMATTER no longer works. (mine is an internal drive)- I had some really miner quirks with it in 10 but it worked. I had some workaround launchers that I used until an upgrade semi-fixed it. (It would give a false error that it couldn't run but did. I just ignored it.)
I tried to edit FSTAB to cure a problem of my BACKUP drive showing up twice*** so while I was in there I added the stuff for the floppy & it still doesn't work. If I try to mount it manually, I get the error that /dev/fd0 doesn't exist.I tried to find some info on it & it SEEMS that there MAY be a bug but I'm not sure as the info is a bit confusing as to just what version & such they are talking about. And there was also the problem that all the stuff seemed to be OLD or not related to my problem.I why I quite hacking at my system, is that all my workaround launchers & the formatter say that there are GNOME things missing & they can't run. So I figure that there is something missing or screwy already & that I'd better ask BEFORE I make things worse or actually break something.With the fact that floppies are about gone, it's getting to be not that big of a deal but I still find myself having to use them for repair purposes (albeit, not as much) & it gets to be a bit of a pain to fire up M$ just to do something like this.
*** It appears that the one in FSTAB was the one I needed, so where would the OTHER one be so I can get rid of it? Or at least make it auto mount.
I am trying to write a floppy boot image to my floppy drive (as root):
Code:
dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0
dd: opening `/dev/fd0': Read-only file system
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I am having a Promise TX4650 RAID controller & trying to create a driver floppy for installing the drivers. Also am using RHEL 5, I can create the driver floppy, but when I type "mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy" I get error: "mount: mount point /media/floppy does not exist".Can I get the files in a format other than the ext2 floppy image, so that we do not need to use a floppy drive?There is a readme file inside the driver archive & you can use that as a reference.
View 2 Replies View Relatederror message:Unable to scan Floppy Drive for media changes Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
View 1 Replies View RelatedHow do you find the device (e.g. /dev/*) for a mounted USB drive in Linux (Ubuntu 10.04)? I'm trying to format a Cruzer USB flash drive, and when I plug it in, the icon for the mounted filesystem appears on my desktop. However, when I open GParted, it doesn't list the filesystem as an option to partition.
The recommendations I've found through Google include monitoring tail -f /var/log/messages, which they claim should list the device name when the drive is mounted, but this never happens for me. I've also read that the USB drive would usually be linked to /dev/sdb, but this appears as a broken link on my filesystem. How else would I find the device?
I have (at least 4) native USB ports that contain flash drives. I know that the /dev/sd[abcd] devices are created in the order they were inserted, but say you have all four plugged in at boot time, or further, they can be plugged and unplugged in real time. At times, /dev/sdf, /dev/sdg, etc. are created as well. I'm ignoring external hubs for now.
I need to know which drive is plugged into the "top port on the front panel", etc, by physical location. From dmesg I can check right after booting and get the physical assignment of a PCI device, say, PCI 0000:00:10.3, as being assigned to the EHCI usb bus. From /proc/bus/usb/devices, and the "T:" field, I have learned that the physical connectors I'm interested are known as USB Bus 1, Port=00, Port=01, Port=04, and Port=05.
From lsusb I can see all sorts of information from the USB point of view, but with no /dev/sd references.
From /proc/scsi/scsi, I can see what scsi devices have been created, with a count consistent with the number of flash drives plugged in, but no USB data.
So, I can get lots of information from the USB storage point of view, and lots of information from the SCSI point of view, but nowhere can I find how to correlate them. In other words, if I want to mount the drive plugged into a given physical slot, how can I find the /dev/sd device I need to mount? udev isn't really interesting here, because I'm just looking for the information that udev would use to answer the same question.
I've done some heaving exploring in the /sys and /proc filesystems and have not yet found where the USB and SCSI worlds intersect.
The closest I have found is (where "Port" is the physical port number from above):
This seems to have some mapping to the physical port and references a "/dev/sd[a-z]" value, but I don't know how reliable it might be, nor do I know if my having to increment that physical port by 1 is meaningful. Anyone have a simpler approach?
So, my goal becomes
mount /dev/<sd that was created for the top slot> /mnt/top
mount /dev/<sd that was created for the bottom slot> /mnt/bottom etc.
I have a USB drive on which I want to install Arch Linux (using the installer, not unetbootin or something similar, as I want the drive to be persistent.) The computer from which I want to boot this USB supports booting from a USB floppy, not a normal drive. Is there any way for me to make a USB floppy on another drive and use that to boot the normal USB drive?
View 2 Replies View Relatedet me know what will be the required settings under /etc/fstab for adding external usb floppy device?
View 3 Replies View Relatedmanaged to get things working so well on my laptop i thought i'd install ubuntu onto an external drive so i can boot to either xp or Ubuntu whenever i want, when i started up after the install it doesn't recognise the drive i loaded it to and appears to have lost the link to xp. the exact words are:
error: no such device: 4368f21f-d1b6-4c60-8c6b-4d2d38d16920.
grub rescue>
what i can do to get my xp back, my wife uses the xp and will kill me if i don't sort it, fortunately the comps unrealiable anyway!
I dont know when k3b stopped working but have just gone to burn a disk and when opening it tells me
Quote: No optical drive found. K3b did not find any optical device in your system. Solution: Make sure HAL daemon is running, it is used by K3b for finding devices.
I can boot from cd and can mount cds from within Slackware but for some reason k3b insists that i don't have a drive.
I've combed the prior posts for an answer but cannot seem to find one that fits.I have a half dozen imation super disks, 120 mb. I would really like to use them occasionally.I can't seem to format them to ext because of a permission issue. But I somehow think it is not a user permission problem but a disk issue.I have already done:
Code:
chown root:floppy /dev/fd0 && chmod 660 /dev/fd0 && adduser <username> floppy
checked to see that I was properly added as an user but when I tried:
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I have a laptop with a floppy drive, and it works fine in Windows, but I'm not sure how to use it under Linux. It does not show up in PCmanFM, like my USB-harddrive, but I do have a /dev/fd0, so I tried:sudo mount /dev/fd0 /mntand then it complains about the file system not being specified, so I dosudo mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mntbut to no avail.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI was wondering if anyone has a floppy image, or something similar that can help me boot my USB.My plan is to have Fedora LiveUSB on my USB... and whenever I need to help someone, or have to use a computer, I can easily pop in my usb, and run Fedora. One problem I've had is that some of my friends have older pcs, and also some of the computers at college are older.I heard that it is possible to force a usb to boot on a motherboard that doesn't support usb boot. I think it has something to do with installing grub on the floppy, and somehow making it install or run usb drivers. (Not entirely sure)One alternative to this that I came up with was to use one of those business card CD's, but apparently the size is too small(at least in the one's I've seen). Not only that, but I can't find them anywhere.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have an external usb connected floppy drive that I cannot mount.#fdisk -1 does not show the drive, in my ignorance I thought that it being a usb it would be recognized the same as flash drives and my external usb ide hdd are recognized.The drive does work, I have tested it in windows computers.Does the floppy need special settings?This may be related or it may be another issue totally:The floppy is recognized in gparted although I cannot format the disc to fat16 or fat 32 as they are greyed out.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have an old Compaq Evo P IV, with FC 14 installed. The light on the floppy drive is on all the time and there is no object for it. It has been this way since I installed, but I don't use floppies much (who does anymore), but now I have a need to edit a file on a floppy, for of all things, a Windows system (boot issue
View 5 Replies View Relatedi dont have floppy drive. i was shocked when i saw that i have.it started when i installed ubuntu and kubuntu..it also appears n my Windows 7 OS.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI just installed this floppy drive in my computer and I can view files on floppy disks but I can not add files to a disk, formating will not work. All the privileges and ownership are set as root and I can not change them. (But I physically own it) Here is what the privileges are set for:
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am having trouble trying to use a 1.44 MB floppy drive on my computer. I have tried to mount the drive on my computer, but all I get is the following message:
Unable to mount location No media in the drive
One post mentioned that if I were to type "id" in a terminal, the floppy would be recognized as "25(floppy)". I tried that, but "25(floppy)" didn't come up.
Also, when I tried using KFloppy to format a floppy disk, I got the following message:
Internal error: device not clearly defined
However, when I used the 'lsmod' and "cat /etc/fstab" commands, they strangely seem to recognize that my computer has a floppy.
I am attaching documentation to this post for analysis. This documentation includes information about a failed attempt to format a disk using Disk Utility. Also, I am using Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) as my operating system.
I still can't access my 3.5" diskette drive under Ubuntu 9.10. What's the secret to making it work?First, to head off some common problems which don't apply here:-There's nothing wrong with the drive. It works fine under Windows XP.-Palimpsest detects the drive is there, but fails to detect media, even with a disk inserted that I know is formatted properly (because I can access it under Windows XP). The drive light does come on when I click "detect media," but nothing else happens.-Doesn't matter what diskette I try.I suspect there is a package which broke floppy drive access with an upgrade (it has happened before, with other things), but I have no idea where to start looking. Didn't find a solution anywhere else either. I can't be the only one to have this problem, so how did you solve it?
View 1 Replies View RelatedBeen using Ubuntu to extend the life of my hard drive. I'm not very familiar with the inner workings of Linux, but I know computers well.
My System:
- Ubuntu 10.04, gnome environment. Dual boot XP.
Problem:
- my external drive, WD essentials 2.2 TB, stopped working recently, about 6 months after installation of dual boot.
Facts:
- still detected, though SMART does not detect it.
- XP still detects it - cant access files though. *
- Ubuntu now detects a floppy drive, which I do not have.
- power still working.
- have tried a few different USB cables.
- happened around the time of several software updates. Maybe paranoia.
- had trouble with music playback.
Hypothesis:
- Drive is dying, cuz XP wont allow me in. *
- Something happened and it rolled back the drivers on the External HD.
- Somehow losing Voltage, though I dont know how. **
Have attempted:
- Disabling Floppy from bios.
- In Windows: disabling XP service pack 3, disabling Firewire 1394.
- Different USB cables. **
- Disconnecting all USB devices, except External HD. **
In installing XP on the first drive of dual boot system using two drives, it requires during setup (after hitting F6 and S) that I install the SATA drivers using a floppy drive (A). I haven't had the need nor have I used a floppy drive in 5 years. I am not sure the old floppy drive I have works or whether the diskette (the original that came with my Abit NF7-S motherboard) has gone bad. Is there a work around for this? Can one even buy floppy drives or diskettes anymore?
View 2 Replies View RelatedEvery time I need to use the floppy drive, I again find it not working.I have reported this problem before, and it has been fixed before, several times.It is broken again.Clicking on the "Floppy Drive" item in Nautilus does not even access the drive.Right clicking and selecting "Detect Media" at least spins the disk, but gives the same non-results regardless of whether there is a disk in the drive.With no disk in the drive this happens:
Code:
$ sudo mount /dev/fd0
mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
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I am working on an old PC and I am trying to mount a floppy disk. The disk is formatted as Fat12 with Quote: mkdosfs -F 12 /dev/fd0 Weather it auto mounts or I mount it with sudo mount Quote: /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0
it says it works fine, but if I add files to it,remove the disk and put it in another machine nothing is on the disk. The files I add to the disk just get added to /media/floppy0 as a normal directory. If I try to umount /dev/fd0 it says the device is not mounted, even directly after I mount it.
How do I access my floppy drive from Puppy Linux?
View 2 Replies View Relatedevery time i try to mount the floppy drive it tells me there is no media in the drive
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have just installed SUSE 11.2 on a spare Hard Drive, on a machine that runs SUSE 11.1 with no probs. There is not a floppy icon on the desktop in 11.2, if I put a disk in the drive & right click on floppy drive in home, then click detect media - the floppy light comes on for a short while, but nothing else. There was not an entry in fstab for floppy,so I added -/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 rebooted & tried again, no difference. The drive is OK on the same machine running SUSE 11.1
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've installed RHEL 5.3 on a Dell Desktop. I don't want to install GRUB to the MBR. Is there a way to boot up RHEL from a floppy?I've installed GRUB on to a floppy but not having much luck starting up RHEL. In the past Slackware has allowed me to startup the kernel from a floppy using LILO. I was hoping that there is way for RHEL too.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm running the Fedora fc8 (werewolf) and I just bought an external floppy drive from ebay, which I have problem mounting. I've edited the fstab with the following:
Quote:
/dev/floppy-sdb /media/floppy vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0
After inserting the drive into a usb port and run dmesg because the drive is not mounted all, I've the following added to the message log:
Quote:
usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 5-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 5-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0644, idProduct=0000
usb 5-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
usb 5-1: Product: TEACV3.0
code....
How do you access a floppy drive from linux dsl live?
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