Failure to ope floppy in "My Computer"
Clicking on the floppy drive's icon in the "My Computer" folder results in an error: The process for the media protocol died unexpectedly. This used to work just fine. Since I rarely use the floppy I can't pin down exactly when it started to fail but I did just notice it yesterday. One potential culpret is an update to the kernel a few days ago: kernel-smp-2.6.11.4-21.7 Anyone else see this problem? Other possibility is also related to the kernel. I just recently turned on hyperthreading and switched to the SMP kernel. This was shortly before the update to the -21.7 level. Thanks.
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 15:35 -0500, Robert Paulsen wrote:
Clicking on the floppy drive's icon in the "My Computer" folder results in an error:
The process for the media protocol died unexpectedly.
This used to work just fine. Since I rarely use the floppy I can't pin down exactly when it started to fail but I did just notice it yesterday.
One potential culpret is an update to the kernel a few days ago:
kernel-smp-2.6.11.4-21.7
Anyone else see this problem?
Other possibility is also related to the kernel. I just recently turned on hyperthreading and switched to the SMP kernel. This was shortly before the update to the -21.7 level.
Thanks.
Don't take this the wrong way but... You did have a floppy in the drive when you clicked on the icon didn't you. It has happened to the best of us. Also try with different floppies as the one you tried may be bad. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
On Friday 17 June 2005 15:39, Ken Schneider wrote:
Don't take this the wrong way but...
You did have a floppy in the drive when you clicked on the icon didn't you. It has happened to the best of us. Also try with different floppies as the one you tried may be bad.
Oh yes, floppy in drive. I can mount it manually (as root) with "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt". I even tried a reboot.
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 15:42 -0500, Robert Paulsen wrote:
On Friday 17 June 2005 15:39, Ken Schneider wrote:
Don't take this the wrong way but...
You did have a floppy in the drive when you clicked on the icon didn't you. It has happened to the best of us. Also try with different floppies as the one you tried may be bad.
Oh yes, floppy in drive. I can mount it manually (as root) with "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt".
I even tried a reboot.
Which version of SuSE are you using? Also can you show the line in /etc/fstab for the floppy. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
On Friday 17 June 2005 16:29, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 15:42 -0500, Robert Paulsen wrote:
On Friday 17 June 2005 15:39, Ken Schneider wrote:
Don't take this the wrong way but...
You did have a floppy in the drive when you clicked on the icon didn't you. It has happened to the best of us. Also try with different floppies as the one you tried may be bad.
Oh yes, floppy in drive. I can mount it manually (as root) with "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt".
I even tried a reboot.
Which version of SuSE are you using? Also can you show the line in /etc/fstab for the floppy.
SuSE 9.3. Here is fstab: /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
On Friday 17 June 2005 16:29, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 15:42 -0500, Robert Paulsen wrote:
On Friday 17 June 2005 15:39, Ken Schneider wrote:
Don't take this the wrong way but...
You did have a floppy in the drive when you clicked on the icon didn't you. It has happened to the best of us. Also try with different floppies as the one you tried may be bad.
Oh yes, floppy in drive. I can mount it manually (as root) with "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt".
I even tried a reboot.
Which version of SuSE are you using? Also can you show the line in /etc/fstab for the floppy.
SuSE 9.3. Here is fstab:
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0 Try adding user as one of the options. It can go anywhere in the
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 16:48 -0500, Robert Paulsen wrote: portion of the line that starts with noauto. I added this this to mine and the error went away but did not show the contents of the floppy. If I cd /media/floppy and issue ll all of the files show. Looks like another little bug that made it through QC and needs to get fixed. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
On Friday 17 June 2005 17:32, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 16:48 -0500, Robert Paulsen wrote:
On Friday 17 June 2005 16:29, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 15:42 -0500, Robert Paulsen wrote:
On Friday 17 June 2005 15:39, Ken Schneider wrote:
Don't take this the wrong way but...
You did have a floppy in the drive when you clicked on the icon didn't you. It has happened to the best of us. Also try with different floppies as the one you tried may be bad.
Oh yes, floppy in drive. I can mount it manually (as root) with "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt".
I even tried a reboot.
Which version of SuSE are you using? Also can you show the line in /etc/fstab for the floppy.
SuSE 9.3. Here is fstab:
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
Try adding user as one of the options. It can go anywhere in the portion of the line that starts with noauto. I added this this to mine and the error went away but did not show the contents of the floppy. If I cd /media/floppy and issue ll all of the files show. Looks like another little bug that made it through QC and needs to get fixed.
Same results here. The "mount" command shows: /dev/fd0 on /media/floppy type subfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid,user=robert) Every time I click on the floppy icon in "My Computer" an additional mount is created and the mount command shows multiple copies of the above outout.
Robert Paulsen (robert@paulsen.homeip.net) wrote something I wish to comment : (news:<200506171739.59934.robert@paulsen.homeip.net> posted on 17-juin-05 23:39:59)
Oh yes, floppy in drive. I can mount it manually (as root) with "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt".
Which version of SuSE are you using? Also can you show the line in /etc/fstab for the floppy.
SuSE 9.3. Here is fstab:
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
Same as here, but I can access to floppy using Konqueror (/media) without having to mount anything by hand.
Try adding user as one of the options. It can go anywhere in the portion of the line that starts with noauto. I added this this to mine and the error went away but did not show the contents of the floppy. If I cd /media/floppy and issue ll all of the files show. Looks like another little bug that made it through QC and needs to get fixed.
The "mount" command shows:
/dev/fd0 on /media/floppy type subfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid,user=robert)
Every time I click on the floppy icon in "My Computer" an additional mount is created and the mount command shows multiple copies of the above outout.
I had about the same problem with zip disks. I could not eject the disk because it was mounted multiple time (I had to unmount it as root to unlock the drive). The entry in fstab was: /dev/hdd4 /media/zip auto noauto,user 0 0 And it showed later in mtab as: /dev/hdd4 /media/zip subfs rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid 0 0 /dev/hdd4 /media/zip vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=amigaphil 0 0 For another reason, I run once an automated repair, and when the program examined the fstab entries, it prompted me that there was no device in /dev/hdd4 (or something like that) and asked if I wanted to remove the entry. As I remembered there was a problem with the zip drive, I replied yes. Now I can access the zip disk just like the floppy, no need to mount it, no locked drive anymore. This is using Konqueror (/media/zip) . If I click on the zip icon from the 'My computer", I now get a "unable to mount" error message. Can you use your floppy with Konqueror (/media/floppy) ? AmigaPhil, world citizen. /No MS-HTML mail please/ PGP key: 0x9C07F6C1 -----BEGIN ECHELON TEASER----- The following garbage may or may not contain crypted message. At least you now know I'm an advocate for the respect of privacy. G3MOqRVfVUIFMIVtqxLtM1IlVRMlHTIFMlOnpxMzGaEFBvOdHvO6GzjtDJWUVUyJrSVtnyIh ElOzDacFVTAFLxA5HvObEaVtH2IFpySvJtcvHlOzD3WFpSHtoxSkVRAyIzyBpRjtp0WyYPOC nRptM1IvEaVtEKMHqHqzVR5yHvOdDzIUqFOEpyAlDKSJLIDtp0WyVR55JFOvHlObEvNuPt== -----END ECHELON TEASER----- Feel free to publish this TagLine. It's Stolen
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 15:32, Ken Schneider
Try adding user as one of the options. It can go anywhere in the portion of the line that starts with noauto. I added this this to mine and the error went away but did not show the contents of the floppy. If I cd /media/floppy and issue ll all of the files show.
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,users,exec,sync 0 0 In 9.1 it is users not user and I switched to manual as subfs is a little too beta for my taste. Ditto for CDRW in 9.2 users for non root access. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/
It is "user" not "users" Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 15:32, Ken Schneider
Try adding user as one of the options. It can go anywhere in the portion of the line that starts with noauto. I added this this to mine and the error went away but did not show the contents of the floppy. If I cd /media/floppy and issue ll all of the files show.
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,users,exec,sync 0 0
In 9.1 it is users not user and I switched to manual as subfs is a little too beta for my taste.
Ditto for CDRW in 9.2 users for non root access.
-- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org
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