Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

[Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>]

>On 14 Apr 2004, davec@dircon.co.uk wrote:
>
>Floppy disks aren't partitioned....are they?  Surely that's why fdisk
>prints rubbish.

That is what I thought
>
>Try
>
>mount -t ext3 /dev/sda /mnt/usbdisk1
does not work
>(drop the '1' off /dev/sda1)
>
>but replace ext3 if necessary with the type.  vfat is more common if
>you are using 'Windows' floppies.

But 

mount -t vfat  /dev/sda /mnt/usbdisk1

Finally works, 

Thanks all of you, you helped me to rapidly! It was very annoying that
I had to boot XP in order to use the USB floppy!!!!


Uwe