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Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work



On Wednesday 14 April 2004 08:10 am, gingupin@yahoo.de wrote:
> Hello Uwe
> >
> > sibus0:
> >         0,0,0     0) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVD-ROM GDR8081N' '0012' Removable CD-ROM
> > scsibus1:
> >         1,0,0   100) 'TEAC    ' 'FD-05PUB        ' '1026' Removable Disk

> That just looks fine....
> Don`t care about the cdrom ! 
> According to the fact, that there are no other devices found 
> the next step could be (just an example)
> 
> #fdisk -l /dev/sda

This will fail on most floppies, as standard formats don't have a 
partition table.

> which should list your partition table of your TEAC RemovableDisk 
> and after this has run out successfully you should try something like 

> #mdkir /mnt/usbdisk1
OK

> #mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdisk1

Should be:
mount /dev/sda /mnt/usbdisk1

After you've verified that it works, unmount it (umount /mnt/usbdisk1)
and add/modify the line in /etc/fstab:

You probably already have:
/dev/fd0        /floppy auto            user,noauto     0       0
Change it to/add:
/dev/sda        /floppy auto            user,noauto     0       0

Then as an  ordinary user, you can "mount /floppy" and see the disk
contents on /floppy.
-- 
Rob



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