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<H4 align="center">By James T. Dennis,
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<p><strong>I have built a custom system just for Linux, but the only
problem I have is that when I try to mount a floppy, the light just comes
on and the disk just spins. The motherboard is a new Tyan that is full of PCI
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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>What is the exact mount command that you are attempting? If
you are relying on an entry in your /etc/fstab to provide
the filesystem type and options, what does that line look
like?
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<blockquote>How is this diskette formatted? What if you use the mtools
commands on a DOS formatted floppy?
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<blockquote>Do any associated messages appear in your syslog
(<tt>/var/log/messages</tt>)? Are you sure that you have the flopp
support compiled into this kernel? (Perhaps you have to load
a module)?
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<blockquote>If it really is a PnP issue you could look for the PnP tools
for Linux (these are userspace tools, mostly without kernel
patches --- though I'm pretty ignorant on the details. I
generally recommend disabling any BIOS PnP ("Plug and
<EM>Pray</EM>") features when installing Linux --- particularly on
a dedicated Linux server where you don't have to accomodate
<EM>some other</EM> OS.
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<blockquote>If all else fails, boot up with a copy of DOS (DR-DOS even)
and access the floppy that way --- or try a tomsrtbt
(Tom Oehser's Root/Boot distribution on a floppy -- the best
Linux rescue diskette I've found). Naturally these <EM>have</EM>
to use the floppy --- so it should be pretty obvious if
there's some hardware failure or incompatibility.
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