[StAndrews and Fife LUG] removeable drives - floppy and cdrom

[David Tillotson]

In message <200305070017.04251.brian.duncan@fife.co.uk>, brian duncan 
<brian.duncan@fife.co.uk> writes
>I'm using Mandrake 9 and gaving problems reading from Floppy or CDROM.
>it reads one or more files and then I get an error  with the file(s) 
>"No such file or directory".
>
>now I know the file is there,  I try umount and then mount again btu no 
>difference.

Sounds like supermount is playing up! What is the output of "mount" on 
its own when this happens? If you do have supermount running, IIRC 
attempting to manually mount a disk can cause problems (I am assuming 
that you have checked the floppy here!) If this is the cause of the 
problem, you could try to copy the file without explicitly mounting the 
disk first ("ls /mnt/floppy" should show the contents of the disk - if 
not, supermount is either not running or has problems!)

>My settings in  Mandrake control centre are:
>Mount point: /mnt/floppy
>Device: fd0
>Type: auto
>Options: user,iocharset=iso8859-15.sync,codepage=850,umask=0

What's listed in /etc/fstab? Personally I don't like the MDK control 
centre, as I have seen it blow away manually tweaked settings.

>I'm definately going to have to get the Dummies ofr Linux book ;o(

Or even the Linux for Dummies book! ;-)
Then again, a couple more dummies doesn't do any harm!
-- 
David Tillotson