-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of William L. Maltby Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 2:16 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Mounting Floppies On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 09:54 +0100, Nigel Kendrick wrote: > Hi - daft one for Friday morning coffee break: > > I have been trying to mount floppies on a couple of CentOS5 servers - > the usual "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" (yes, /mnt/floppy exists!). > > On both servers, the mount command just doesn't come back and I have > to hit CTRL-C. I have tried different media and also changed the > floppy drive on one server, /dev/fd0 is seen as present on both > servers and they are enabled in the BIOS. I have formatted and tested > the floppies on my desktop PC without problems. > > In the end, I gave up, stuck a USB floppy on one of the boxes and it > mounted with no problems. > > So is it me, CentOS 5 or something else? (Ideas, anyone!?). It could > be a set of duff floppies and three flaky drives (two brand new), but > I thought I'd ask before I spend too much more time on it! Here is support - it may not be you. I've successfully mounted and used FDs on this system in previous kernel releases. Out of /var/log messages when I did an sfdisk -l /dev/fd0 and dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/null count=1. Jun 20 09:07:54 centos501 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 20 09:08:06 centos501 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 20 09:08:06 centos501 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 Jun 20 09:08:18 centos501 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Jun 20 09:08:18 centos501 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0 My dmesg has Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 If necessary (lack of prompt resolution on these lists) I'll "ribit" to an older kernel and see what happens. I suggest you might try that. > Thanks > > Nigel Kendrick > <snip sig stuff> HTH -- Bill Thanks Bill, I've had no problems with older systems too - I just don't have one to play with here at the moment unless I shut down an Asterisk server and fit a floppy.