[CentOS] floppy drives

David G. Miller dave at davenjudy.org
Tue Apr 9 14:15:03 UTC 2013


mark <m.roth at ...> writes:

<SNIP>
> But I'm over the first hump. Now I'm playing with /dev/fd1 and 
> /dev/floppy-fd1 (and why is it trying to read a superblock when I try to 
> mount it, when I've said -t msdos? Oh, well, onward in the fight.)
> 
> 	mark
> 
I think mount uses the same error string (possibly from ERRNO) whenever it
can't find the appropriate file system structure on a device.  Thus, you get
"Unable to read superblock" even when mount -t msdos is looking for a FAT
and FAT root directory.

Cheers,
Dave






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