Unable to mount location

[philross]

I have just installed Linux Mint and so far when I boot up or try to access the floppy disk, I get "Unable to mount locatioon" as a title then I get - Error mounting /dev/fd0 at /media/philross/disk: Command-line `mount -t "auto" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/fd0" "/media/philross/disk"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
.... basically the floppy doesnt work. I have edited the fstab file but that has done nothing - I would really appreciate some help.
Many thanks
Phil Ross

[viking777]

Try

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ls /dev/f*

Perhaps your floppy drive is not known to the kernel as fd0 but something else?

[philross]

Thanks for your reply.
I did input ls /dev/f* to get this response:

/dev/fb0 /dev/fd0 /dev/full /dev/fuse
/dev/fd:
0 1 2 3

does this help at all ?
Regards,
Phil

[viking777]

Not really, /dev/fd0 is there - I thought it might show something like /dev/floppy or some other option instead of /dev/fd0. I was wrong.

Here is a thought though. Do you have the application fdutils installed? If not get it from package manager. According to its docs it has these features:

The package includes the following items:

- superformat: formats high capacity disks (up to 1992k
for high density disks or up to 3984k for extra density
disks);
- fdmount: automatically mounts/unmounts disks when they are
inserted/removed;
- xdfcopy: formats, reads and writes OS/2's XDF disks;
- MAKEFLOPPIES: creates the floppy devices in /dev;
- getfdprm: prints the current disk geometry (number of
sectors, track and heads etc.);
- setfdprm: sets the current disk geometry;
- fdrawcmd: sends raw commands to the floppy driver;
- floppycontrol: configures the floppy driver;
- general documentation about the floppy driver.

A couple of those utilities might be of use to you. Of course I have no idea how to use this suite of tools as I don't have a floppy drive to test them on. Either the general documentation mentioned at the end or perhaps

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man fdmount

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man floppycontrol

After you have installed the package might help you.

There is also this:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= ... ostcount=2

[philross]

Thank you so much - I really appreciate it ... I'll let you know how I get on.
Phil