Problem with my floppy drive

renecane · 2008-02-13 17:13:20

Today i tried to use my old floppy drive. I tried to format some floppies with Kfloppy but it says something like:
Internal error: device not correctly defined.

Ideas how to fix this?

vogets · 2008-02-13 17:27:43

Is the floppy module loaded ?

renecane · 2008-02-13 17:35:35

oops... typo in modules list corrected 'flopy' to 'floppy'
but still Kfloppy says:
The program fdformat terminated with an error

neotuli · 2008-02-13 18:16:38

can you find out what error? Perhaps try running fdformat on the command line instead of through Kfloppy to see the error.

renecane · 2008-02-13 19:02:26

hmm... i tried it:
root ~ # fdformat /dev/fd0
/dev/fd0: No such device or address

so does this mean that it cant find my floppy device?

EDIT:
i also tried this:
root ~ # mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy/
mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

Last edited by renecane (2008-02-13 19:09:44)

gazj · 2008-02-13 19:14:29

Have you restarted since adding floppy to your modules list. If not try

modprobe floppy

Then

ls -l /dev/fd0

to check /dev/fd0 exists

and finally add yourself to the floppy group

gpasswd -a username floppy

You will need to log out and in for your floppy membership to take effect. Then try again.

Last edited by gazj (2008-02-13 19:21:07)

renecane · 2008-02-13 20:13:16

yes i restarted my computer after that.
ls -l /dev/fd0 pritnts out this:
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 2008-02-13 23:57 /dev/fd0

and i added my user in floppy group but still it does not work. am i doing something wrong here? what should be in my fstab file ?

gazj · 2008-02-13 20:31:50

Have you used the drive recently on arch or another OS? If so was it working. If you recently (re)installed it do you have the floppy ribbon connected correctly?

azleifel · 2008-02-13 20:33:12

renecane wrote:

yes i restarted my computer after that.
ls -l /dev/fd0 pritnts out this:
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 2008-02-13 23:57 /dev/fd0
and i added my user in floppy group but still it does not work. am i doing something wrong here? what should be in my fstab file ?

My floppy works. Here's the relevant line from my /etc/fstab

/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  vfat            rw,user,noauto  0  0

gazj · 2008-02-13 20:43:31

You don't need anything in your fstab to format a floppy with fdformat, in fact I doubt it would work if it was mounted. Make sure it's unmounted before you use fdformat.

Last edited by gazj (2008-02-13 20:44:11)

azleifel · 2008-02-13 20:47:19

gazj wrote:

You don't need anything in your fstab to format a floppy with fdformat, in fact I doubt it would work if it was mounted. Make sure it's unmounted before you use fdformat.

You are of course correct.

[david@darkstar ~]$ fdformat /dev/fd0
Double-sided, 80 tracks, 18 sec/track. Total capacity 1440 kB.
Formatting ... 
ioctl(FDFMTTRK): Device or resource busy
[david@darkstar ~]$

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Problem with my floppy drive

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