[K12OSN] Cant get server to find floppy drive
Wilson Chan
wilson at wilsonch.gotdns.com
Mon Oct 11 20:50:08 UTC 2004
> Wilson:
>
> Your ls command indicates that your only mount point
> under mnt is cdrom. You first need to create a mount
> point named 'floppy' as indicated in your fstab file
> by /mnt/floppy.
>
> Next retry the mount command:
>
> ...]mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
Just tried the command but it didnt work. Output below:
[root at server mnt]# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
/dev/fd0: Invalid argument
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
[root at server mnt]#
>
>
>
>
> --- Wilson <wilson at wilsonch.gotdns.com> wrote:
>
> > The thin client server is up and running, but for
> > some reason I can't seem
> > to mount the floppy drive. I tried manually adding
> > /dev/fd0 in fstab because
> > it wasn't there. I even tried swapping out floppy
> > drives but nothing works.
> > Any ideas? Below are some outputs (fstab, mtab,
> > dmesg, chkconfig):
> >
> > ***Tried Mounting Floppy***
> > [root at server root]# mount floppy
> > mount: can't find floppy in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
> >
> > ***No Floppy in mnt***
> > [root at server mnt]# ls
> > cdrom
> > [root at server mnt]#
> >
> > ***/etc/fstab***
> > [root at server root]# cat /etc/fstab
> > LABEL=/ / ext3
> > defaults 1 1
> > none /dev/pts
> > devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> > none /dev/shm
> > tmpfs defaults 0 0
> > LABEL=/home /home ext3
> > defaults 1 2
> > none /proc proc
> > defaults 0 0
> > none /sys
> > sysfs defaults 0 0
> > /dev/sdc2 swap swap
> > defaults 0 0
> > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> > udf,iso9660
> > noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
> > noauto,owner,kudzu 0
> > 0
> >
> > ***/etc/mtab***
> > [root at server mnt]# cat /etc/mtab
> > /dev/sdc1 / ext3 rw 0 0
> > none /proc proc rw 0 0
> > none /sys sysfs rw 0 0
> > none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> > usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
> > none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
> > /dev/sda1 /home ext3 rw 0 0
> > sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw 0 0
> > nfsd /proc/fs/nfsd nfsd rw 0 0
> >
> >
> > ***dmesg output***
> > [root at server mnt]# dmesg |less
> > Linux version 2.6.8-1.521smp
> > (bhcompile at tweety.build.redhat.com) (gcc
> > version 3.
> > 3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)) #1 SMP Mon Aug
> > 16 09:25:06 EDT 2004
> > BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> > BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00
> > (usable)
> > BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000
> > (reserved)
> > BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000
> > (reserved)
> > BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000040000000
> > (usable)
> > BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000
> > (reserved)
> > BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000
> > (reserved)
> > BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000
> > (reserved)
> > 0MB HIGHMEM available.
> > 1024MB LOWMEM available.
> > ACPI: S3 and PAE do not like each other for now, S3
> > disabled.
> > found SMP MP-table at 000fb4f0
> > On node 0 totalpages: 262144
> > DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
> > Normal zone: 258048 pages, LIFO batch:16
> > HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
> > DMI 2.1 present.
> > ACPI disabled because your bios is from 99 and too
> > old
> > You can enable it with acpi=force
> > Using APIC driver default
> > Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
> > Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
> > OEM ID: INTEL Product ID: 440BX APIC at:
> > 0xFEE00000
> > Processor #0 6:10 APIC version 17
> > Processor #1 6:10 APIC version 17
> > I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
> > Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
> > Processors: 2
> > Built 1 zonelists
> > Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> > mapped 4G/4G trampoline to fffeb000.
> > Initializing CPU#0
> > CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=023eb000 soft=023cb000
> > PID hash table entries: 4096 (order 12: 32768 bytes)
> > Detected 701.704 MHz processor.
> > Using tsc for high-res timesource
> > Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> > Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7,
> > 524288 bytes)
> > Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7,
> > 524288 bytes)
> > Memory: 1033604k/1048576k available (1896k kernel
> > code, 14236k reserved,
> > 736k da
> > ta, 176k init, 0k highmem)
> > Calibrating delay loop... 1384.44 BogoMIPS
> > Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
> > SELinux: Initializing.
> > SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
> > There is already a security framework initialized,
> > register_security failed.
> > selinux_register_security: Registering secondary
> > module capability
> > Capability LSM initialized as secondary
> > Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096
> > bytes)
> > CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff 00000000
> > 00000000 00000000
> > CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff 00000000
> > 00000000 00000000
> > CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
> > CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
> > CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383f3ff 00000000
> > 00000000 00000040
> > Intel machine check architecture supported.
> > Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
> > Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
> > Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support...
> > done.
> > Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> > CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Cascades) stepping 01
> > per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 5855.10 usecs.
> > task migration cache decay timeout: 6 msecs.
> > enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
> > ESR value before enabling vector: 00000004
> > ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
> > Booting processor 1/1 eip 2000
> > CPU 1 irqstacks, hard=023ec000 soft=023cc000
> > Initializing CPU#1
> > masked ExtINT on CPU#1
> > ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
> > ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
> > Calibrating delay loop... 1400.83 BogoMIPS
> > CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff 00000000
> > 00000000 00000000
> > CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff 00000000
> > 00000000 00000000
> > CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
> > CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
> > CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383f3ff 00000000
> > 00000000 00000040
> > Intel machine check architecture supported.
> > Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
> > CPU1: Intel Pentium III (Cascades) stepping 01
> > Total of 2 processors activated (2785.28 BogoMIPS).
> > ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
> > Setting 2 in the phys_id_present_map
> > ...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok.
> > init IO_APIC IRQs
> > IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-5, 2-9, 2-10, 2-11,
> > 2-20, 2-21, 2-22, 2-23 not
> > conn
> > ected.
> > ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0
> > number of MP IRQ sources: 17.
> > number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24.
> > testing the IO APIC.......................
> > IO APIC #2......
> > .... register #00: 02000000
> > ....... : physical APIC id: 02
> > ....... : Delivery Type: 0
> > ....... : LTS : 0
> > .... register #01: 00170011
> > ....... : max redirection entries: 0017
> > ....... : PRQ implemented: 0
> > ....... : IO APIC version: 0011
> > .... register #02: 00000000
> > ....... : arbitration: 00
> > .... IRQ redirection table:
> > NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
> >
> > 00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> > 01 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39
> > 02 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31
> > 03 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41
> > 04 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49
> > 05 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> > 06 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51
> > 07 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59
> > 08 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61
> > 09 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> > 0a 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> > 0b 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> > 0c 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69
> > 0d 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 71
> > 0e 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79
> > 0f 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81
> > 10 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 89
> > 11 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 91
> > 12 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 99
> > 13 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A1
> > 14 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> > 15 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> > 16 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> > 17 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> > Using vector-based indexing
> > IRQ to pin mappings:
> > IRQ0 -> 0:2
> > IRQ1 -> 0:1
> > IRQ3 -> 0:3
> > IRQ4 -> 0:4
> > IRQ5 -> 0:18
> > IRQ6 -> 0:6
> > IRQ7 -> 0:7
> > IRQ8 -> 0:8
> > IRQ9 -> 0:19
> > IRQ10 -> 0:16
> > IRQ11 -> 0:17
> > IRQ12 -> 0:12
> > IRQ13 -> 0:13
> > IRQ14 -> 0:14
> > IRQ15 -> 0:15
> > .................................... done.
> > Using local APIC timer interrupts.
> > calibrating APIC timer ...
> > ..... CPU clock speed is 701.0473 MHz.
> > ..... host bus clock speed is 100.0210 MHz.
> > checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs: passed.
> > Brought up 2 CPUs
> > zapping low mappings.
> > checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio
> > magic); looks like an
> > initrd
> > Freeing initrd memory: 316k freed
> > NET: Registered protocol family 16
> > PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb81, last
> > bus=1
> > PCI: Using configuration type 1
> > mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
> > ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
> > ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
> > Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
> > usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
> > usbcore: registered new driver hub
> > PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> > PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
> > vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6
> > apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version
> > 1.16ac)
> > apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe.
> > audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
> > audit(1097355274.363:0): initialized
> > Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
> > VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
> > Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096
> > bytes)
> > SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
> > Initializing Cryptographic API
> > ksign: Installing public key data
> > Loading keyring
> > - Added public key 9488DB81FF525AA3
> > - User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key)
> > ksign: invalid packet (ctb=00)
> > Unable to load default keyring: error=74
> > pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
> > isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
> > isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
> > Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
> > Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
> > agpgart: Detected an Intel 440GX Chipset.
> > agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory:
> > 942M
> > agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
> > Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports,
> > IRQ sharing enabled
> > ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> > ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> > RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K
> > size 1024 blocksize
> > divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet
> > device lo
> > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision:
> > 7.00alpha2
> > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes;
> > override with idebus=xx
> > PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
> > PIIX4: chipset revision 1
> > PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings:
> > hda:pio, hdb:pio
> > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings:
> > hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> > hda: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:273, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> > Using cfq io scheduler
> > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> > hda: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused
> > (ireason = 0x01)
> > hda: ATAPI 4X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache
> > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
> > ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
> > usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
> > usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
> > drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core
> > driver
> > mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
> > serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
> > input: PS/2 Logitech Mouse on isa0060/serio1
> > serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
> > input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on
> > isa0060/serio0
> > md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
> > NET: Registered protocol family 2
> > IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets,
> > 64Kbytes
> > TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind
> > 43690)
> > Initializing IPsec netlink socket
> > NET: Registered protocol family 1
> > NET: Registered protocol family 17
> > CPU0: online
> > domain 0: span 00000001
> > groups: 00000001
> > domain 1: span 00000003
> > groups: 00000001 00000002
> > CPU1: online
> > domain 0: span 00000002
> > groups: 00000002
> > domain 1: span 00000003
> > groups: 00000002 00000001
> > md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
> > md: autorun ...
> > md: ... autorun DONE.
> > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> > SCSI subsystem initialized
> > scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA
> > DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
> > <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter>
> > aic7880: Ultra Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7,
> > 16/253 SCBs
> >
> > Vendor: IBM Model: DGHS18U Rev:
> > 03B0
> > Type: Direct-Access ANSI
> > SCSI revision: 03
> > scsi0:A:10:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 4
> > SCSI device sda: 35843670 512-byte hdwr sectors
> > (18352 MB)
> > SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
> > sda: sda1
> > Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 10,
> > lun 0
> > Vendor: IBM Model: DGHS18U Rev:
> > 0350
> > Type: Direct-Access ANSI
> > SCSI revision: 03
> > scsi0:A:11:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 4
> > SCSI device sdb: 35843670 512-byte hdwr sectors
> > (18352 MB)
> > SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write through
> > sdb: sdb1
> > Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 11,
> > lun 0
> > Vendor: IBM Model: DCHS09U Rev:
> > 2727
> > Type: Direct-Access ANSI
> > SCSI revision: 02
> > scsi0:A:12:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 4
> > SCSI device sdc: 17774160 512-byte hdwr sectors
> > (9100 MB)
> > SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back
> > sdc: sdc1 sdc2
> > Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 12,
> > lun 0
> > (scsi0:A:13): 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz,
> > offset 8, 16bit)
> > Vendor: IBM Model: DCHS09U Rev:
> > 2727
> > Type: Direct-Access ANSI
> > SCSI revision: 02
> > scsi0:A:13:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 4
> > SCSI device sdd: 17774160 512-byte hdwr sectors
> > (9100 MB)
> > SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back
> > sdd: sdd1
> > Attached scsi disk sdd at scsi0, channel 0, id 13,
> > lun 0
> > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
> > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 176k freed
> > SELinux: Disabled at runtime.
> > SELinux: Unregistering netfilter hooks
> > NET: Registered protocol family 10
> > Disabled Privacy Extensions on device 02343560(lo)
> > IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
> > divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet
> > device sit0
> > USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
> > uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: UHCI Host Controller
> > uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 9, io base 0000ef80
> > uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered,
> > assigned bus number 1
> > hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
> > hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
> > EXT3 FS on sdc1, internal journal
> > device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised:
> > dm at uk.sistina.com
> > cdrom: open failed.
> > Adding 2047992k swap on /dev/sdc2.
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