Can anybody else not find their floppy in gnome?

jourdan · 2006-09-03 08:47:24

HAL can't find it. Gnome subsequently doesn't know about it. I use AUTOFS and it works beautifully.

Here's the lshal output:

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_0'
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_0'  (string)
  linux.subsystem = 'platform'  (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 1  (0x1)  (int)
  info.product = 'Platform Device (floppy.0)'  (string)
  platform.id = 'floppy.0'  (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer'  (string)
  info.bus = 'platform'  (string)
  linux.sysfs_path_device = '/sys/devices/platform/floppy.0'  (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/platform/floppy.0'  (string)

I'd be happy to just

pacman -Rs hal

, but since I can't do that I might as well make it work.

Thanks for any tips!

jourdan · 2006-09-03 09:10:43

Of further interest... I have a Zip100 internal drive that shows-up as /dev/hdd. However, trying to mount it through Gnome/pmount gives me an error explaining that it can't find /dev/hdd4. 4?

Maybe this needs a udev symlink with %n and it'll be found, but that's my only idea, and why 4?

Oh well, I'll post if my udev idea works... the floppy is still a mystery.

Mythoz · 2006-09-03 09:31:41

Same lshal output for floppy here and GNOME does not list it.

rayjgu3 · 2006-09-03 10:00:21

why not turn hal off?

/etc/rc.conf 
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus !hal network netfs @crond  @cups)

or just take it out of there all together

as for zip drive it was about a year ago ,i belive when we started going modular
is when my zip drive went from sda1 to hdd4
if you look at /dev youll have hdd - hdd63 (it is here)
i never did find out why , just started using it that way
its been a while since i booted a diffrent distro but i think it was the same with others i tried
well i just did a google it seems its a kernel issue starting 2.6.12 which was bout a year ago

i dont use gnome so ?
floppy = /dev/fd0 but im gonna guess you know that

jourdan · 2006-09-03 10:49:14

hmm... wouldn't turning HAL off cause Gnome to complain loudly?

my /dev has just the one entry for /dev/hdd. no other "hdd#" exist. In fact, the only node in /dev that goes from 0 to 63 is "tty".

I use custom udev rules to create symlinks that my AUTOFS references, but I leave the link that the kernel puts into /dev alone so to avoid problems like this one. I guess the joke's on me!

mount/umount floppy works just fine, and yes - she's at /dev/fd0.

I can post more details if you'd like, but I'm convinced that this is a HAL/Gnome thing. I wish Googling "hal" gave me more to go on, like some configuration instructions...

rayjgu3 · 2006-09-03 15:11:11

well i cant say for sure bout gnome whining cause hal is off
i would try it though i believe worst case scenerio is you have to mount/umount things yourself ,the old fashion way

m123 · 2006-09-28 01:04:32

This bug has been corrected with a new patched version of hal. It now works on kde (see http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=24133). Don't know for gnome.

jourdan · 2006-10-03 01:52:43

See my latest post here:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=25609

m123 · 2006-10-03 21:16:51

See also my post there. Perhaps could we mark these two threads as solved?

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Can anybody else not find their floppy in gnome?

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