OS is Debian Lenny. LS-120 CMSO 05 UHD FLOPPY correctly reported in dmesg as hdb. Indeed, after clean install of Lenny, LS-120 worked as it should with 120 MB floppy. However, never showed correctly in File Browser. It does not appear in fstab and mtab, and adding lines from posts in various forums to fstab and mtab gave errors with mount -a.

What is known good syntax for fstab and mtab for LS-120 running as /dev/hdb ?

John

The file /etc/mtab is not used to store what drives can be mounted. It is only there for keeping status what drives are mounted. Though if you have screwed around with /etc/mtab, you can always revert it by doing cat /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab.

After creating the directory /mnt/ls120, add the following line to /etc/fstab.

/dev/hdb /mnt/ls120 auto noauto,users 0 0

Entering mount -a does not mount every drive. You have to manually type mount /mnt/ls120.

Thank you for your help. Yes, your sugestion worked. Most of my L120 diskettes that work with my other LS-120 drive (OS = XP Pro SP2)give a "can't find superblock" errors with LS-120 error on Debian machine.

John

In the old days floppy drives from different manufactures have different head alignment than others. A head miss-alignment can occur when the drive ages. This problem still comes up even today's computers. When I copy some files from my 80386DX-40 system to an Athlon, some floppies can not be formatted or files can not be deleted on the newer system.

Try manually mount the disk by specifying the filesystem instead using auto. If it still does not work, temporally store the data on the Windows system and format the disk in Linux. Next transfer the files to the Linux to the Superdisk drive.

I think some distributions have different autofs scripts that may not detect the filesystem effectively.