From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6C1E1381F3 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:27:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE83D21C03D; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:27:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vb0-f53.google.com (mail-vb0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A8DAF21C017 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:26:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vb0-f53.google.com with SMTP id b23so1332252vbz.40 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:26:20 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=y+PvBxg79BGrWAv5qlRCL60c0jOrPVCm7TCS5Kmt7p4=; b=niUr5YGhYKQ0stPhNjJRKZxD9FUGG5FcUQQD2vvovPy0nrYJ/U5f4N3dtBoVdZz7ce 4AGpbBwRjuQIVw2VzhE6Poem+cxePKl3sLVRBqAWBimmUmsqtHth6xqctLfrVGEafABn cd4eBF0+3jcFJchB1UQXlp5i329Nqz3uHSwdoWP9wtgdyKiHI9DVix2smT23ZinghfjJ kE0KJ3PxTDXWsGKsmjHRZe8fLhBptirkh0SvLIq20qGD+IOa3ghJul+5jHiu2BKGYuHB w/wJ5A6zqwyBG+Lk/HEETTv946MAfohlaCm8hljBUnYRn4jwJOSmGEkVFJp+eT2QRkGo 25jA== Received: by 10.52.97.104 with SMTP id dz8mr1220490vdb.21.1355347580757; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:26:20 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.58.217.195 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:26:00 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20121212135414.3f2d03a7@memphis.local> From: Paul Hartman Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:26:00 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: wbKTvo8EAlHz2i7s-hVrb_bMw-M Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting floppy disks To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 75a1f618-a4d0-413b-bd87-c7dfd0c8c7c0 X-Archives-Hash: 48a068793a64eea14434306352d99fde On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:54 AM, David W Noon 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.