On Thursday 01 July 2004 19:38, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
- Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> [07-01-04 17:35]:
I CANNOT WRITE TO MY FLOPPY DISK AND I NEED TO.
I realize it's frustration, but no need to shout.
I have already added "users" in fstab. It made no difference whatever. This is SuSE 9.1 with this funny mounting scheme.
Post the line in /etc/fstab for your floppy drive and 'ls -la' for the mount point (the directory where you would access the floppy).
one step at a time....
-- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos Here is the entire fstab:
/dev/hdb6 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0 /dev/hdb5 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,users,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/dvd /media/dvd subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,users,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0 Here's the ls -la from the root: linux:~ # cd /media/floppy linux:/media/floppy # ls -la total 7 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 7168 Dec 31 1969 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 128 Apr 6 12:04 .. linux:/media/floppy # This is with a formatted floppy in the drive, with no programs on it. The format is vfat. Well, I finally managed to get something on to the floppy. I hope I can remember how to do it again. I did su - put in my password and then linux:/home/doug # cp 10GHz_amps.txt /media/floppy linux:/home/doug # cd /media/floppy linux:/media/floppy # ls . .. 10GHz_amps.txt linux:/media/floppy # But this does not seem to be the way a windowed system should work. I should be able to drag and drop a file to the floppy, but I have never been able to in this version. (Don't know if I could have done so in earlier versions, since I would usually do something like this in the first place. Altho I didn't have to mount the floppy--or umount it.) The file is readable in Windows, so I guess this is usable, even if somewhat clumsy. (The reason I need to read it in Windows is that WP 8 for Linux can't seem to read a file emailed from a WP converter on a MAC, and the whole Linux machine locks up tight as a drum when I try.) Would it help if I get rid of subfs and substitute auto? I hate to fool with config files, because you never know if you can get back again, especially since I don't know what subfs is or why. I think it is an auto-mounter, but I have had trouble unmounting and ejecting CD and DVD disks. --doug