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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? 
 
 
 
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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:
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su
 
mkdir /media/usbfloppy
 
mcedit /etc/fstab
 
Insert the following line:
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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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             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?
 
 
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             Verfasst am: 26.08.2007, 00:18 Uhr
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          timeout in /boot/grub/menu.lst
 
 
after
 
 
sux
 
 
you can use any editor. | 
         
        
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