Re: Floppy drive woes...

LeRoy D. Cressy on Mon, 4 Jan 1999 21:48:46 -0500 (EST)


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Re: Floppy drive woes...


David L. Martin wrote:
> 
> Still not working, here's what I tried:
> 
> command [dmesg | grep Floppy] :
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> 
> command [dmesg | grep FDC] :
> FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
> 
> command [mount -o rw -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy]:
> mount: /dev/fd0 already mounted or /mnt/floppy busy
> { note:
> I rmdir'd floppy and recreated to make sure /mnt/floppy was not in use.
> The remount option did not work either.
> }
> 
> command [mformat a:] :
> mformat: Can't open /dev/fd0: Device or resource busy
> 
What does your /etc/fstab look like? Is the line that defines the
/mnt/floppy specified as noauto? like:
/dev/fd0 /floppy minix rw,noauto,user 0 0
/dev/fd0 /dosa msdos rw,noauto,user 0 0
If this doesn't work we should bring this up wednesday night.
Regards
LeRoy
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