when you umount the drive, you should see that the directory /floppy is empty. rmdir /floppy and then mkdir /floppy. mount /dev/fda0 /floppy again. does that help? ryan -~->-----Original Message----- -~->From: Alvaro A. Novo [mailto:novo@uiuc.edu] -~->Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 11:30 AM -~->To: SuSE English -~->Subject: [SLE] Floppy craziness -~-> -~-> -~->Hi, -~-> -~->Once I reported this problem, thought it was gone, but it's -~->back and I don't -~->have a clue how to solve it. -~-> -~->Here's the story: -~-> 1) Mount a dos formatted floppy, containing files 001.x 001.y 001.z -~-> 2) Unmount the floppy -~-> -~-> 3) Mount a dos formatted floppy, containing files 002.x, 002.y 002.z -~-> 4) Using ls or KDE's file manager I SEE files 001* -- -~->that's the files -~-> that where in floppy 1. -~-> 5) More, I can't access them, I can't access the 002*, which are the -~-> ones physically in floppy 2. -~-> -~-> 6) If instead of 3), I mount an ext2 floppy I can see and -~->operate the -~-> files that are contained in it. -~-> 7) Umount ext2 floppy and mount dos floppy #2, shows files of floppy -~-> #1, so I back to ground zero -~-> -~->Here's additional info -- kernel messages and my fstab: -~-> -~->================================================================ -~->Jan 6 09:49:37 friedman kernel: set_blocksize: b_count 12, dev -~->fd(2,0), block -~->19! -~->Jan 6 09:49:37 friedman kernel: set_blocksize: b_count 16, dev -~->fd(2,0), block -~->21! -~->Jan 6 09:49:37 friedman kernel: set_blocksize: b_count 16, dev -~->fd(2,0), block -~->22! -~->Jan 6 09:49:37 friedman kernel: set_blocksize: b_count 11, dev -~->fd(2,0), block -~->23! -~->Jan 6 09:49:37 friedman kernel: set_blocksize: b_count 13, dev -~->fd(2,0), block -~->24! -~->Jan 6 09:49:37 friedman kernel: set_blocksize: b_count 4, dev -~->fd(2,0), block -~->25! -~->Jan 6 09:49:37 friedman kernel: set_blocksize: b_count 12, dev fd(2,0), -~->block 20! -~->================================================================ -~-> -~->FSTAB -~->================================================================ -~->/dev/fd0 /floppy auto -~->noauto,user 0 0 -~->#/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat -~->noauto,user 1 2 -~-># NOTE: Does not matter which line is uncommented, the error is the same -~->================================================================ -~-> -~->I really would appreciate if you could help me on this weird -~->one... anybody -~->ever experienced such thing? An additional note, my CD-ROM(IDE -~->Atapi) is going -~->nuts (mechanically, sometimes doesn't start spinning, even on -~->W98), could this -~->be related, i.e., "confusing" the kernel/other devices? -~-> -~->Thanks in advance for your help/comments, -~-> -~->Alvaro Novo -~-> -~->-- -~->To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com -~->For additional commands send e-mail to -~->suse-linux-e-help@suse.com -~->Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ -~-> -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/