Floppy drive problem in Trisquel
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To All:
I've been looking into the floppy drive not working in Trisquel.
I received a reply from a Andrew T. at this web page:
http://trisquel.info/en/forum/ethernet-dell-dimension-3000-and-floppy-drive
Andrew T. directed me to this web page for a fix for the problem with
the floppy drive:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/ubuntu-8-1-won...
I appreciate the info from Andrew T., however, neither set of
instructions fixed the floppy drive problem in Trisquel.
I'll continue to look for a solution to the floppy drive problem in
Trisquel.
Richard
I used add a line to /etc/fstab (like Andrew proposed)... but that is quite some time ago! Maybe this will help you: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FloppyRecognition
To All:
I received two more replies concerning the floppy drive and Trisquel.
The replies were posted at this web site:
http://trisquel.info/en/forum/floppy-drive-problem-trisquel#comment-7685
I appreciate that Magic Banana and Quidam took the time to reply.
I tried both suggestions and neither suggestions solved the floppy drive
problem in Trisquel.
The word 'floppy' did get added to etc/modules but that is all.
Using the floppy drive in terminal mode all that can still be done is,
the disk can be formatted with fdformat and you can assign a filesystem
with mksdosfs or mke2fs.
Going into the desktop and clicking on 'computer' the clicking on the
'floppy drive' all you get is:
Unable to mount location: No media in drive
If you try to open the floppy drive as an administrator you get:
Unable to determine the program to run: The item you selected cannot be
open with administrator powers because the correct application cannot be
determined.
Likewise if you try to use a program such as Kfloppy to format the disk
in the floppy drive you get:
Internal error: device not correctly defined.
Also if you go to 'Places'> Floppy Drive, then again nothing happens.
I beginning to think that the problem with a floppy drive on Trisquel is
going to take more than just issuing a few commands in the terminal
mode.
Richard
The GUI relies on the (terminal commands). As a consequence there is no need to test many GUI. Of course you first have to insert a formatted (NB: this means it has a file system, not necessarily that this file system is empty) floppy disk in the drive. Then fire, in this order these two commands:
$ sudo modprobe floppy % then type your password and [enter]
$ mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
What are their exact outputs? If none then it works and the content of your floppy was mounted in /mnt. In other words, you can see it with 'ls /mnt' (or by pointing your favorite file browser on /mnt).
The floppy kernel module is no longer loaded by default, but you should be able to load it manually with this command:
sudo modprobe floppyIf it works, you can make the change permanent by running this:
echo floppy | sudo tee -a /etc/modulesIf it does work please report it back to add this information to the wiki.
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