From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting floppy disks
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:26:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEH5T2NSRRMyxND4pH5sokT=+2qupLpVvsSzxQvkWTNpsWc0UA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+czFiASEFsvozZ0DxT_P8_k2HO-G9CLVHrjZLkMM68j768iEw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:54 AM, David W Noon <dwnoon@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:59:52 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote about
>> "[gentoo-user] Mounting floppy disks":
>>
>>>For some reason, when I mount floppy disk (standard HD 3.5" VFAT disk)
>>
>> Floppies are normally formatted as FAT12, not VFAT.
>
> Eh. I've seen FAT16 and FAT32 on 1.44MB floppies.
>
> Anyway, Paul should try
>
> file -s /dev/fd0
>
> and
>
> mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
Yes, that's what I've tried, and variations of -t auto and -t msdos
and -t vfat. So it was simply not working as expected...
I'm not at home now so I can't test, but I believe I've found the
explanation and probably the answer:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338185
It seems udisks:0 is unmounting my floppy as soon as I've mounted it.
There are various workarounds, ultimately removal of udisks:0 should
make the problem go away, but that is impossible at the moment because
I still have packages which depend on it. It seems Gentoo devs are
actively in the process of trying to eliminate udisks:0 so the problem
won't last forever. Until then there are work-arounds described in the
bug report that I can use.
I will try when I'm at home and provide an update then. Thanks for your help.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-12 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-12 5:59 [gentoo-user] Mounting floppy disks Paul Hartman
2012-12-12 13:54 ` David W Noon
2012-12-12 16:49 ` Michael Mol
2012-12-12 21:26 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2012-12-13 15:08 ` Paul Hartman
2012-12-16 9:21 ` J. Roeleveld
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