[Eug-lug] usb floppy??

[Max Lemieux]

Ah. Thanks for the correction. I've noticed that all USB storage devices 
(generally memory cards) load as /dev/sda, didn't think about floppies falling 
under that category. Guess I shouldn't complain unless I'm willing to rewrite 
usb-storage. ;)

-Max


T. Joseph CARTER wrote:
> 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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