/dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

[Matt Morgan]

Thanks to Rick and James!

I figured it out, and it was really pretty dumb. I wanted to follow 
Rick's tip, that the light would be on full-time if I had the cable 
backwards. Since I hadn't seen the light go on ever, I figured, maybe 
it's broken. So I opened up the case, and saw that I'd forgotten to plug 
the floppy drive into power. I guess the moral of this story is, 
hwbrowser may show you hardware that you don't have :-).

James--I sure wanted to try it with a floppy I knew was working, but 99% 
of the floppies we have around here are USB (long story). I had tried to 
plug one of those in, and it didn't work all by itself, so I decided to 
try a good old-fashioned internal drive. Of which we have very, very 
few. Thanks.

--Matt


On 04/09/2004 03:11 PM, James Kosin wrote:

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> Rick Stevens wrote:
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> If you use fdformat to format the floppy in Linux, you still need to use
> mkfs to build a file system on the floppy.  Otherwise, you will still
> get this error, even after the format.
>
> /dev/fd0 is only permitted if fdformat knows the format already or can
> find it out from the floppy.
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> You can use mount /mnt/floppy to try again.  Or better still, get a disk
> you know is good... and try mounting that.
>
> Good Luck,
> James Kosin
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