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<H4>"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H4 align="center">By James T. Dennis,
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<H3><img src="../../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" alt="(?)"
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>Floppy/mount Problems: Disk Spins, Lights are on, No one's Home?</H3>
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<p><strong>From Jonathan on 24 Sep 1998</strong></p>
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<p><strong>I have built a custom system just for Linux, but the only
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problem I have is that when I try to mount a floppy, the light just comes
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on and the disk just spins. The motherboard is a new Tyan that is full of PCI
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PnP. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. TIA
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<p><strong>-=Jonathan=-
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<blockquote><img src="../../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" alt="(!)"
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width="50" height="28" align="left" border="0"
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>What is the exact mount command that you are attempting? If
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you are relying on an entry in your /etc/fstab to provide
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the filesystem type and options, what does that line look
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like?
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<blockquote>How is this diskette formatted? What if you use the mtools
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commands on a DOS formatted floppy?
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<blockquote>Do any associated messages appear in your syslog
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(<tt>/var/log/messages</tt>)? Are you sure that you have the flopp
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support compiled into this kernel? (Perhaps you have to load
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a module)?
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<blockquote>If it really is a PnP issue you could look for the PnP tools
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for Linux (these are userspace tools, mostly without kernel
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patches --- though I'm pretty ignorant on the details. I
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generally recommend disabling any BIOS PnP ("Plug and
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<EM>Pray</EM>") features when installing Linux --- particularly on
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a dedicated Linux server where you don't have to accomodate
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<EM>some other</EM> OS.
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<blockquote>If all else fails, boot up with a copy of DOS (DR-DOS even)
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and access the floppy that way --- or try a tomsrtbt
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(Tom Oehser's Root/Boot distribution on a floppy -- the best
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Linux rescue diskette I've found). Naturally these <EM>have</EM>
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to use the floppy --- so it should be pretty obvious if
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there's some hardware failure or incompatibility.
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<H5 align="center"><a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html"
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>Copyright ©</a> 1998, James T. Dennis <BR>
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Published in <I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 33 October 1998</H5>
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