Floppy drive not responding.

[HermanAA]

On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 10:01 -0400, Lorenzo Luengo wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen escribió:
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> > HermanAA wrote:
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> >> my (newly added) floppy does not show up.
> >> Cannot mount drive ... seems to be the problem.
> >> The floppy drive is working under WINdows.
> >>
> >> I must be doing something wrong in the setup.
> >>
> >> n0jn at bsw:~$ mount /dev/fd0
> >> mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
> >> ...
> >> looking around:
> >>
> >> ls -l /dev/f*
> >> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root        13 2009-06-26 23:16 /dev/fd
> >> -> /proc/self/fd
> >> brw-rw----  1 root floppy  2,   0 2009-06-26 23:15 /dev/fd0
> >>     
> 
> did you make sure that you belong to the "floppy" group?
> 
> -- 
> Lorenzo Luengo Contreras

No, I still have to check that aspect.
 (In that case I would get an error message saying 'you have no
permission' or similar.)

Still, there could be problems coming from there.
I keep digging. See latest message.