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					| Titel: External floppy drive throws up an error  Verfasst am: 20.08.2007, 20:07 Uhr |  |  
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          | 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
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					| Titel: External floppy drive throws up an error  Verfasst am: 20.08.2007, 21:14 Uhr |  |  
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          | I had that error too with Kanotix-2006-01. Maybe you can mount the drive manually: Code: 
su
Insert the following line:mkdir /media/usbfloppy
 mcedit /etc/fstab
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/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
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					| Titel: External floppy drive throws up an error  Verfasst am: 20.08.2007, 22:33 Uhr |  |  
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          | mount -a 
 is for "auto" lines only. does nothing for "noauto".
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					| Titel:  Verfasst am: 25.08.2007, 22:40 Uhr |  |  
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          | 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
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					| Titel:  Verfasst am: 26.08.2007, 00:18 Uhr |  |  
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          | timeout in /boot/grub/menu.lst 
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 sux
 
 you can use any editor.
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