Hi Jean-Francois, Thanks for the ideas. LSMOD shows no "ide-floppy" module loaded. MODPROBE IDE-FLOPPY responds ' can't locate module ide-floppy'. But these would not apply to the SCSI R/W MO cartridge would they? Both devices seem to be recognized by the kernel; but when I do FDISK -L /dev/hda or FDISK -L /dev/sdc the output appears to be wrong, fdisk thinks that these carts & super floppies are "mis-partitioned" i.e.: Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-linux?) phys = (80, 10, 0) logical = (904484, 3, 6) Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: phys = (371, 101, 33) logical = (1858416, 46, 24) Partition 1 does not end on a cylinder boundary: phys = (371, 101, 33) should be = ( 371, 63, 32) and similarly for Partitions 2 and 3 then it says: Partition table entries are not in disk order This to me seems to point strongly to something "being off by a byte or two" These carts and super floppies are recognized under NT and w98se, and they were recognized under 6.3 SuSE!! Thanks for your Help......................... Pete VC "Jean-François Bocquet" wrote:
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 01:58:02 -0600 "Peter B. Van Campen" <pbvanca@ameritech.net> wrote:
Hi to ALL,
I have had the same problem on SuSE 7.1 on two different machines. I have posted to this list a couple of times about 7.1 inability to mount removable media.
I get the same error msg from MOUNT that you have posted. I have both SCSI read/write magneto optical drives and LS-120 super floppy drives.
These drives work perfectly on these machines when I boot them with W98se or W-NT4, but when I boot 7.1 I cannot mount them; I get the same error msg from MOUNT.
But I have tried something new. I have booted from the #2 cd of the SuSE 6.3 install media; Under install YAST 1 of 6.3 these drives are recognized properly, but once I boot back to 7.1 MOUNT still rejects them.
Can anyone please help us?????????????
Check with "lsmod" that the kernel module ide-floppy is loaded. If not try loading it with "modprobe ide-floppy".
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