HOWTO fix floppy disk mounting issues

**bfonseca** · February 26th, 2006

When I try to mount it the floppy drive lights up and it looks like it is being read. But then gives me:

mount: /dev/fd0: can't read superblock

Any thoughts?

**stanz** · February 26th, 2006

Hi All, Hey Tseliot, ~ Thanks for your reply & help/time here...!! I've been 'out' for awhile, and continue where i left off.
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you replied: Weird... Did you install the latest version of "pmount" ?
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Yes,
Terminal Responsereparing to replace pmount 0.9.5-0ubuntu5 (using .../pmount_0.9.6-1~breezy1_i38 6.deb) ...
Also, I am in the "plugdev" group~ {good info BTW!}
I'll also try adding the 'vfat' to fstab & will let ya know the result.
Aside from trying the disk with pics & such, i'ld aquired scammodem.gz, from linmodem site, ~
which didn't work either. Again, also done on M$.

**dsimpson** · March 8th, 2006

Hi, I tried your solution and after entering the code into the terminal I received the message: command not found Am I doing something wrong? I don't really understand how to enter the code commands into the terminal, especially the parts of entering 2 lines of code, when I enter one line and try to move to the next it finalizes the command and I am brought to a new line to enter.
Anyway, here is where I am at, I need to mount the floppy drive so that I can read the downloaded file I need to open, the file was downloaded on another computer, I am not able to access the internet with the computer I installed Ubuntu onto. I downloaded scanmodem and cannot open it to unzip it to my system. Could you please help me.

**tseliot** · March 8th, 2006

Originally Posted by dsimpson

Hi, I tried your solution and after entering the code into the terminal I received the message: command not found Am I doing something wrong? I don't really understand how to enter the code commands into the terminal, especially the parts of entering 2 lines of code, when I enter one line and try to move to the next it finalizes the command and I am brought to a new line to enter.
Anyway, here is where I am at, I need to mount the floppy drive so that I can read the downloaded file I need to open, the file was downloaded on another computer, I am not able to access the internet with the computer I installed Ubuntu onto. I downloaded scanmodem and cannot open it to unzip it to my system. Could you please help me.

If you're trying to type this exact word "Code:" you shouldn't. Just ignore it Instead you should copy the commands which are in the frame below the word "Code:".

Another thing: you should type ONLY ONE command per time.

**Ferri** · March 13th, 2006

I've also had problems accessing to my floppy drive. After looking around I found I could mount it only after doing this:

Code:

sudo modprobe floppy

After that I was able to access to the floppy and the "fd0" that should be in my /dev folder appeared. The problem is that at reboot I had to repeat the same command. To bypass this I edited my "modules" file:

Code:

sudo kedit /etc/modules

And added "floppy" (without quotes) at the end. I don't know it this is the best way, but it did the trick for me.

**stanz** · March 14th, 2006

Hi All...Hey tseliot....
My last attempt didn't change anything.
"I'll also try adding the 'vfat' to fstab & will let ya know the result."
I've gotton tired of: "need to be superuser", and found/added,
a 'Root': " gksudo "nautilus --browser %U" ~so i/we, can get access.
It's not just floppy- cdrom,dvd-rom too.
Since i'm a home-box, it be nice to have wife/kids, access mounting
when they want...but, it don't look like its happening.

**jason.b.c** · July 23rd, 2006

So did this ever get resolved..????

Is there any better way of doing this..???

How did everybody make out with this..????

**stanz** · July 25th, 2006

I gave up on floppies...and now- since upgrade,~ I still haven't tried.

**tseliot** · July 25th, 2006

Originally Posted by jason.b.c

So did this ever get resolved..????

Is there any better way of doing this..???

How did everybody make out with this..????

Post your /etc/fstab

**stanz** · July 28th, 2006

Originally Posted by tseliot

Post your /etc/fstab

# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults,noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,auto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,auto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto, rw,user,auto 0 0

Ha.. I was just trying to save a Oo doc, to floppy- since printer is on da blink.
I grabbed a disk, & figured to format- using dappers "floppy formatter", & noticed the choice of 'DOS' or 'EXT2'.
Choosing Linux, with a successful format, I went to save the file...
which gave me a quick "unknown file format".
Again with mounting: mount: unknown filesystem type ''.
Even trying to use the 'DOS', gave error & I figure since I used 'EXT3',
I'm SOL with 'EXT2'.?!

Just venting...asta!