Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work
On 14 Apr 2004, daniel@rimspace.net wrote:
Thanks for you reply:
>
> The basics:
>
> A USB floppy disk drive does *not* live on /dev/fd?, it lives as a
> SCSI disk drive, by virtue of the USB storage device protocols.
Ok, I did not know that to start with
>
> So:
>
> Do you have USB mass-storage support, SCSI support and SCSI disk
> support all compiled in, or as modules?
As modules I think
lsmod | grep usb
gives me
usb-storage 60960 0 (unused)
usb-ohci 18184 0 (unused)
usbcore 57472 0 [usb-storage hid usb-ohci]
>
> If so, do they correctly load and identify the floppy drive as a
> SCSI mass storage device?
>
> If so, what happens when you access /dev/sd0?
mount -t ext3 /dev/scd0 /floppy/
mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: No medium found
And nothing happens
Uwe
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