[Eug-lug] usb floppy??

T. Joseph CARTER knghtbrd at bluecherry.net
Mon Aug 30 09:01:59 PDT 2004


On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 08:35:38AM -0700, Max Lemieux wrote:
> The floppy drive should appear in /dev as /dev/fd0 on most systems. Try "ls 
> -l /dev/fd0" to see what you have. Then, try Mr O's good suggestions 
> (reproduced here):

Actually, usb-storage devices won't show up as /dev/fd0 since that's the
legacy AT floppy device, unless you're on a laptop whose BIOS emulates the
AT device.  Even then, it should stop doing so when you load a proper USB
stack.

I'd look for /dev/sda most likely, since if you do not have any other
"SCSI" devices, usb-storage will define a USB floppy as the first one.



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