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PostPosted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 4:55 pm    Post subject: floppy does not work Reply with quote

When I try to mount the floppy I get
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mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device


In dmesg I can see an error message:
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Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
floppy0: Floppy io-port 0x03f2 in use


cat /proc/ioports does not show any conflicts
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03f0-03f1 : PnPBIOS PNP0c02
03f3-03f3 : PnPBIOS PNP0c02


With previous Linux installations I had a similar error ony with Mandrake 8.1. With adding nobiospnp as a kernel command the error went away. With linux-2.4.19-gentoo-r7 this does not work and in
kernel-parameters.txt
there is nobiospnp anymore.

dev information:
    bash-2.05a# ls -l /dev/fd0
    lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Aug 31 2002 /dev/fd0 -> floppy/0
    bash-2.05a# ls -l /dev/floppy/0
    brw-rw---- 1 root root 2, 0 Jan 1 1970 /dev/floppy/0
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Naan Yaar
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 12:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you add FAT filesystem support in your kernel?
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 7:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, and it works. I can mount a hard disk partition with -t vfat.
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