Floppy drive problems

From: Sean Callanan (sc843@bard.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 23 2001 - 13:12:27 PST

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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:12:27 -0500
From: Sean Callanan <sc843@bard.edu>
Subject: Floppy drive problems

    Dear mailing list:

    Apparently my success with 2.4 was not complete. Specifically, I have
    problems mounting floppies and cdroms. My /etc/fstab has the following
    lines:

    /dev/cdrom /cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
    /dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,user 0 0

    cat /proc/devices yields:

    ...
    Block devices:
    2 fd
    3 ide0
    22 ide1

    My kernel is configured as follows:

    Normal floppy disk support: Built-in
    Include ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM support: Built-in

    But mount /floppy or mount /cdrom yields:

    de_DE: mount: /dev/fd0 hat eine falsche Major- oder Minor-Gerätenummer
    en_US: mount: /dev/fd0 has wrong major or minor number

    Any ideas? Could the problem be that earlier in /proc/devices, we have
    the following?

    Character devices:
    2 pty
    3 ttyp

    Might I have to remake the devices?

    Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to give me. My system
    is a Sun Ultra 5, with a 360MHz UltraSparc IIi, 128MB memory, SuSE
    7.0/Sparc and Kernel 2.4.0. I still, however, have the original kernel
    (2.2.something) on it.

    Sincerely,

    Sean Callanan

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