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Hi,

I cannot say I am being very successful at reading my floppies.  I have
a PowerPC 8500/150, with LinuxPPC R5, and the 2.2.12 kernel.  When I try
to access a dos floppy, I get the following response:

Quote:> mdir a:

Can't open /dev/fd0:  Device or resource busy
Cannot initialize 'A:'

A while back, I might have ooppss-deleted the floppy entry in
/etc/fstab.  I re-typed that entry as below (correct entry?):

/dev/fd0   /mnt/floppy  ext2  owner,noauto  0 0

Thanks for your time and any input,

Didier

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Quote:> Hi,

> I cannot say I am being very successful at reading my floppies.  I
have
> a PowerPC 8500/150, with LinuxPPC R5, and the 2.2.12 kernel.  When I
try
> to access a dos floppy, I get the following response:

> > mdir a:
> Can't open /dev/fd0:  Device or resource busy
> Cannot initialize 'A:'

> A while back, I might have ooppss-deleted the floppy entry in
> /etc/fstab.  I re-typed that entry as below (correct entry?):

> /dev/fd0   /mnt/floppy  ext2  owner,noauto  0 0

> Thanks for your time and any input,

> Didier

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I think you are getting the error because the OS is trying to mount an
ext2 floppy , not a dos one. If you change the ext2 to auto and try
again it should work.  You will have to have the autofs rpm installed.
HTH
Clyde

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mtools doesn't mount your floppy. The /etc/fstab doesn't do thing with mtools.
Check instead /etc/mtools.conf but I guess in this case this still doesn't help
much since a: is defaulted to /dev/fd0.

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You know you're a Mac * when:
- you're forced to use a pc at gunpoint and you try to make aliases in DOS.

Wopppsy.. thats on x86 platform, I've no idea what it will be in 8500 (my iMac
doesn't have floppy :)

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You know you're a Mac * when:
- you pick out a college based on their platform of choice.

You are right, mtools has nothing to do with the fstab, but
if the partition type is not correctly defined in the fstab then it won't
work.
the /etc/fstab should be:
#oldline
#/dev/fd0  /mnt/floppy  ext2  owner,noauto  0 0
/dev/fd0  /mnt/floppy  auto  owner,noauto  0 0

This should make mount check and mount the volume as the correct type.
once the floppy is mounted, mtools should work.
I can't check cause my G4 doesn't have a floppy either.
 HTH and please post and let us know how it worked

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