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beroal

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From: Ukraine

Registered: 2009-06-07

Posts: 325

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Gnome does not automount/detect a floppy disk

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/temp

works fine.

When I click on the floppy drive in Nautilus, I get nothing. When I click "detect media" in "palimpsest", I get "no media detected". In both cases the floppy drive moves a head (mechanical), but a disk is not mounted.

I can not tell when the problem appeared first, I don't use floppy very much. Here is an output of "lshal" about floppy:

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pnp_PNP0700'
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer'  (string)
  info.product = 'PC standard floppy disk controller'  (string)
  info.subsystem = 'pnp'  (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pnp_PNP0700'  (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 2  (0x2)  (int)
  linux.subsystem = 'pnp'  (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pnp0/00:05'  (string)
  pnp.description = 'PC standard floppy disk controller'  (string)
  pnp.id = 'PNP0700'  (string)
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_0'
  info.linux.driver = 'floppy'  (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer'  (string)
  info.product = 'Platform Device (floppy.0)'  (string)
  info.subsystem = 'platform'  (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_0'  (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 2  (0x2)  (int)
  linux.subsystem = 'platform'  (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/platform/floppy.0'  (string)
  platform.id = 'floppy.0'  (string)
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_0_storage_platform_floppy'
  access_control.file = '/dev/fd0'  (string)
  access_control.type = 'floppy'  (string)
  block.device = '/dev/fd0'  (string)
  block.is_volume = false  (bool)
  block.major = 2  (0x2)  (int)
  block.minor = 0  (0x0)  (int)
  block.storage_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_0_storage_platform_floppy'  (string)
  info.addons = {'hald-addon-storage'} (string list)
  info.callouts.add = {'hal-acl-tool --add-device'} (string list)
  info.callouts.remove = {'hal-acl-tool --remove-device'} (string list)
  info.capabilities = {'storage', 'block', 'access_control'} (string list)
  info.category = 'storage'  (string)
  info.interfaces = {'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume', 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.Removable'} (string list)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_0'  (string)
  info.product = 'PC Floppy Drive'  (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_0_storage_platform_floppy'  (string)
  info.vendor = ''  (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 3  (0x3)  (int)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/platform/floppy.0/block/fd0'  (string)
  org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_argnames = {'mount_point fstype extra_options', 'extra_options', 'extra_options'} (string list)
  org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_execpaths = {'hal-storage-mount', 'hal-storage-unmount', 'hal-storage-eject'} (string list)
  org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_names = {'Mount', 'Unmount', 'Eject'} (string list)
  org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_signatures = {'ssas', 'as', 'as'} (string list)
  storage.automount_enabled_hint = true  (bool)
  storage.bus = 'platform'  (string)
  storage.drive_type = 'floppy'  (string)
  storage.hotpluggable = false  (bool)
  storage.media_check_enabled = false  (bool)
  storage.model = ''  (string)
  storage.no_partitions_hint = true  (bool)
  storage.originating_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_floppy_0'  (string)
  storage.removable = true  (bool)
  storage.removable.media_available = false  (bool)
  storage.requires_eject = false  (bool)
  storage.size = 0  (0x0)  (uint64)
  storage.vendor = 'PC Floppy Drive'  (string)
  volume.mount.valid_options = {'ro', 'sync', 'dirsync', 'noatime', 'nodiratime', 'noexec', 'quiet', 'remount', 'exec', 'utf8', 'shortname=', 'codepage=', 'iocharset=', 'umask=', 'uid='} (string list)

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ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,356

Re: Gnome does not automount/detect a floppy disk

May be the same issue as other threads around here about automount and gnome 2.28. Search the forums.

On a side-note - people still use floppies 0.0!

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Misfit138

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Re: Gnome does not automount/detect a floppy disk

On a side-note - people still use floppies 0.0!

How else can we install Windows XP sata drivers during installation? 0_o

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