Thomas Taylor wrote:
I have installed FC5.2 on my computer 3 times now. Each time the nodes
for /media/floppy and /media/cdrecorder are not being created. The /media
directory is there but it's empty.
I think I read somewhere that it is udev's job to create the folders
under /media/ as removable media is detected and removed. Currently my
/media directory on FC5t2 + updates is empty as well.
If I stick in a DVD video, a folder with the title of the DVD (eg
Planet_Of_The_Apes), and also totem tries to play it, but given FC has
no mpeg decoder, it just gives an error message. Also, a desktop icon
with the title is created: I use this to eject to DVD from the context menu.
...
Looking in bugzilla, I found bug 177589 which is similar but doesn't provide
me with any insight into my problem.
I haven't been able to use mknod because I don't have the major/minor numbers
for these devices. When I tried to download the source code per the
instructions in the release notes, it failed.
Floppy disk insertion is not detectable; instead nautilus Computer shows
Floppy Drive. Context menu Mount Volume displays a small dialog with an
X, but no text, then another error dialog is shown over the top "Error"
"X Unable to mount media. There is probably no media in the drive". This
is shown immediately, without lighting the FDD LED (I understand that
accessing the disk is the only way to detect if there is a disk in the
drive, and this is _not_ being done).
if I su and:
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
the disk is mounted OK and double clicking the Floppy Drive entry shows
the contents of the disk OK, and a desktop icon is shown with the title
mnt !?! (perhaps if the disk has no title, then it causes a problem for
the current code ?)
Neither of the context menus on for unmount manage to unmount the disk.
df displays an error:
df: '/mnt': Input/output error
# umount /dev/fd0
is successful at dismounting the disk.
Can someone please send me the major/minor numbers for those devices or
provide some other way to access them.
Can you try the tests I tried above, and respond here ?
If no help, maybe useful : ?
# ll /dev/{cd*,fd0}
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 (date time) /dev/cdrom -> hdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 (date time) /dev/cdwriter -> hdc
brw-rw---- 1 dave floppy 2, 0 (date time) /dev/fd0
DaveT.
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