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MartinfromDublin - 20.08.2007, 20:07 Uhr
Titel: External floppy drive throws up an error

I have an external Seagate 320 gig hard drive, USB mouse plus a PC Line external floppy drive attached to my Packard Bell laptop. The Seagate is fine, so is the mouse but the floppy,although appearing on the desktop gives this error when I try to read a floppy disk;

Method "Mount" with signature "ssas" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" doesn't exist

Can anyone tell a total newbie what that means?

Martin

ockham23 - 20.08.2007, 21:14 Uhr
Titel: External floppy drive throws up an error

I had that error too with Kanotix-2006-01. Maybe you can mount the drive manually:

Code:

su

mkdir /media/usbfloppy

mcedit /etc/fstab

Insert the following line:

Code:

/dev/sda /media/usbfloppy vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0

Replace "sda" with the drive's label, if the label isn't "sda".

Code:

mount -a

Kano - 20.08.2007, 22:33 Uhr
Titel: External floppy drive throws up an error

mount -a

is for "auto" lines only. does nothing for "noauto".

MartinfromDublin - 25.08.2007, 22:40 Uhr
Titel:

Hi guys, no joy. When I ran "mcedit /etc/fstab" the screen I got did not allow me to enter anything. Could it be done by editing the /ect/fstab via Kate? Also, anyone know how you change the default timeout in GRUB from the defalut 5 seconds?

Martin

Kano - 26.08.2007, 00:18 Uhr
Titel:

timeout in /boot/grub/menu.lst

after

sux

you can use any editor.