Floppy problems

[squareyes]

Peter Garrett wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 09:00 +0930, squareyes wrote:
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>>>If it doesn't, look for your floppy line in /etc/fstab.  It should be
>>>something like this.  The option "user" is the option that may be
>>>lacking for yourself.
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>>>/dev/floppy       /media/floppy  vfat    user,noauto     0       0
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Hi ,
tried below, no value,
/dev/fd0  /media/floppy0   vfat  rw,user,noauto    0     0
/dev/fd0  /media/floppy0   vfat  rw,user,noauto    0     0

/dev/fd0  /media/floppy0   auto  rw,user,noauto    0     0
/dev/fd0  /media/floppy0   auto  rw,user,auto     0     0

Will not even show a list of floppy contents as root in terminal

with below I can at least see a list of floppy contents, changing "auto"
to "vfat" no more list.

/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,umask=000,users,auto   0       0

Can copy files to Desktop (with above fstab), from terminal as root,
where they will open, but Gimp will not open them from .
/media/floppy0/cdburn.png
cannot drag/drop from nautilus folder.  png's were written with Knoppix,
so can't understand permission problem.
Floppy will open with both Knoppix and Win98 (on this machine)
so figure floppy drive is OK.

Clicking floppy icon on screen opens folder, shows files.but will not
open them from folder.
Does show floppy free space, and icons for files.
Right clicking the files makes them dissappear from the folder.

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>For what it's worth, my floppy fstab line reads
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>/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  vfat    rw,user,noauto  0       0
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Tried that, no joy.
Thanks again,
Take Care
Winton

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