Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

[gingupin@yahoo.de]

Hi again...
> There are two "options" now .... if you want to make it easy:
>
> #mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda
> makes it possible to create a new filesystem on the whole device OR:
> #fdisk /dev/sda
> and then you start to delete all the partitions and create a new partition
> table.... BUT...
> But if there is already data on the disk the easiest way would be to
> reassemble the disk to a microsoft system, make a backup of the data and
> then recreate the partition table with fdisk.
>

Sorry ! I made a mistake... the info that it is a floppy just slipped my 
mind...

just insert a new media....
#mkfs.ext3(or what ever) /dev/sda
and then try to mount
#mount -t ext3 /dev/sda /mnt/usbdisk1

This should work....

Jörg