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mistermock
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 Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 12:22 pm Post subject: [solved] mount /dev/floppy -> system hangs |
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Hi there,
when mounting my floppy drive (mount /dev/floppy) I hear a short "klack" (I think my HD spins down) and after a few seconds the whole system hangs. Before that I can still switch to different consoles, but not much more.
On ALT-F12 I get "hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61" and some related messages, but these messages are not written to the log file (so I think my HD does not work any more at this point).
The facts:
- (normal) FD support is enabled in the (self compiled) kernel (2.6.10).
- /etc/fstab contains "/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0"
- mounting as root
- system hangs
can anyone help?
thanx
Mister Mock
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F-0_ICE
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| Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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first:
even if you could mount /dev/floppy nothing would happen. besides you mount drives/partitions by the mount point listed in fstab
second:
whats up with that? they contradict each other that might cause a problem.
use in your fstab or
if you want your floppy mounted when your system boots
third:
if you wanted to write to floppy through a GUI you will need to emerge mtools package
or you can cp/mv files to floppy through terminal
lastly if the above doesn't doesn't work post the whole floppy line of your fstab and we can work from there
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F-0_ICE
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| Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 1:17 am Post subject: |
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forgot this but do you have support for the vfat file system in your kernel?
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mistermock
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| Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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First of all: It's working now  I switched to kernel 2.6.11 and after some failures again, now it works. And I compiled vfat in the kernel, not as a module (also tried it on 2.6.10, but it didn't help). Don't know if it belongs to the new kernel or whatever. So please don't ask me how I solved it :-/
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mount /mnt/floppy
even if you could mount /dev/floppy nothing would happen. besides you mount drives/partitions by the mount point listed in fstab |
my posting was wrong, but actually I did the right job.
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auto noauto
whats up with that? they contradict each other that might cause a problem. |
auto refers to the filesystem type
noauto means not to mount the drive automatically
so this is right!
But after all: Thanx for you help!!!
cu MisterMock |
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F-0_ICE
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| Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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my bad i must have mis read it  hasta luego
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