Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work
On 14 Apr 2004, james@buffer.net wrote:
> Uwe Brauer wrote:
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>> On 14 Apr 2004, robsims@robsims.ipf.fc.hp.com wrote:
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>>> You probably already have: /dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
>>> Change it to/add: /dev/sda /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
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>> Good point,
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>> I have /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat
>> defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
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>> So I guess
>> /dev/sda /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
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>> Would be the right thing, and in fact it works!
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>> The only thing which remains to be done is to configure the KDE
>> floppy
>> symbol to mount correctly the device. I will try this.
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>> Thanks
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> It's great that the KDE community is addressing ms* floppies, but,
> remember mtools (i.e. mcopy and mdir and mdel) allows one to iteract
> with ms* floppies without mounting....
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> James
nope not for the external usb floppy I was asking for.
( mtools were my first try of course )
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