From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francis Galiegue Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 14:38:41 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] fail to mount LS120 drive Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Einar Saltnes wrote: > > Hi, > I'm trying to mount the LS120 drive on BigSur, but fail getting > the following message: > > [root@scali9-12 linux-2.4.0-test10]# mount /mnt/floppy > /dev/hdb1: Invalid argument > mount: /dev/hdb1 has wrong major or minor number > > Same result with floppy and LS120 floppy. > Try with /dev/hdb. Is it any better? At least, it Works For Me(tm). If not, what does a fdisk -l /dev/hdb give on an LS120 floppy? And in general, can LS120 floppies be partitioned? I doubt it... -- Francis Galiegue, fg@mandrakesoft.com "Programming is a race between programmers, who try and make more and more idiot-proof software, and universe, which produces more and more remarkable idiots. Until now, universe leads the race" -- R. Cook