I recently installed 7.3 prof. in my HP Pavilion 6490 which has a superdisk (LS120) drive. Now I am no longer able to read my diskettes. I went to the log file "/var/log/boot.msg" to find the drive and, sure enough, it was there under "hdc=LS-120 slim04..." Them I went to "/dev" and the file "hdc" was there too. Then I create a "ls120" folder in "/media". Next I went to "/etc/fstab" deleted the line that had the floppy, and add the following:"/dev/hdc /media/ls120 auto noauto,user,sync 0 0". After that I restart the computer, inserted a diskette and typed: "mount -t auto /dev/hdc /mnt" which gave me "I could not determmine the fs type, and none was specified" ????? I would appreciate if anyone can give me some hints to solve this problem Thanks Francisco Seattle -- __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
Francisco wrote:
I recently installed 7.3 prof. in my HP Pavilion 6490 which has a superdisk (LS120) drive. Now I am no longer able to read my diskettes. I went to the log file "/var/log/boot.msg" to find the drive and, sure enough, it was there under "hdc=LS-120 slim04..." Them I went to "/dev" and the file "hdc" was there too. Then I create a "ls120" folder in "/media". Next I went to "/etc/fstab" deleted the line that had the floppy, and add the following:"/dev/hdc /media/ls120 auto noauto,user,sync 0 0". After that I restart the computer, inserted a diskette and typed: "mount -t auto /dev/hdc /mnt" which gave me "I could not determmine the fs type, and none was specified" ????? I would appreciate if anyone can give me some hints to solve this problem
I don't have an ls120 to play with, but your mount statement using "auto" may not be working. I'm not familiar with automount, but you told fstab that you wanted the ls120 to be mounted on /media/ls120, then you try to automount it on /mnt.???? Why not try a manual mount like: mount -t msdos /dev/hdc /media/ls120 put whatever your ls120 is formatted with in there for msdos
Francisco wrote:
I recently installed 7.3 prof. in my HP Pavilion 6490 which has a
superdisk (LS120) drive. Now I am no longer able to read my diskettes. I went to the log file "/var/log/boot.msg" to find the drive and, sure enough, it was there under "hdc=LS-120 slim04..." Them I went to "/dev" and the file "hdc" was there too. Then I create a "ls120" folder in "/media". Next I went to "/etc/fstab" deleted the line that had the floppy, and add the following:"/dev/hdc /media/ls120 auto noauto,user,sync 0 0".
After that I restart the computer, inserted a diskette and typed: "mount -t auto /dev/hdc /mnt" which gave me "I could not determmine the fs type, and none was specified" ????? I would appreciate if anyone can give me some hints to solve this
Hi, Francisco:
I used to use LS-120s but have not for 6 months or more. In addition to
the information furnished by Zentara, there is also some info on LS-120s
on the Step by Step site
http://www.linux.nf/stepbystep.html
and mirrors. It may be that the format (ext2, msdos, etc.) may be
incorrectly specified in the fstab or mount command, especially if you
have used the disk you're trying to mount, in a previous Linux
distribution or installation.
FWIW.
Regards,
Glenn
Glenn Williams - n0hn@abq-nm.com
Registered Linux user # 135678 since 1994
----- Original Message -----
From: "zentara"
I don't have an ls120 to play with, but your mount statement using "auto" may not be working. I'm not familiar with automount, but you told fstab that you wanted
the
ls120 to be mounted on /media/ls120, then you try to automount it on /mnt.????
Why not try a manual mount like: mount -t msdos /dev/hdc /media/ls120
put whatever your ls120 is formatted with in there for msdos
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