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I can't get my Floppy Drive to work. Please help me!

Asked by Jolene Turner

My Floppy Drive does not work. It has a error message that drive has to mounted. Also so it show no avaiable file to make it work.
I still like to save and use the Floppy Disks for saving some files and pictures.

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#1

Firstly, not to lecture, but a USB disk is likely to be a lot more reliable than a floppy disk. They are only a few dollars in the US for a small capacity one, which will be able to store more than a thousand floppys worth of data.

Secondly, can you post the exact error message?

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David Jones (dj) said : 		#2

<file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

This may help you .

   David
   in TN

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peter b (b1pete) said : 		#3

pls see comment #282 on the url below

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/441835?comments=all

does/did it help ?

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#4

Please open the menu System→Administration→User and groups
and check the permissions of your user please give all permissions using the "Advanced settings" go to "Users Priviledges" and set all permissions.

Then open a terminal and type::

udisk --mount /dev/fd0

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#5

Sorry a made i typo:

udisks --mount /dev/fd0

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