USB floppy
Hi
is anyone using a usb floppy successfully??
i'm running debian etch with a custom debian kernel 2.6.11.
i have an ibm thinkpad r51. i bought an ibm usb floppy drive for it
also. the system picks it up ok like so from dmesg:
usb 2-1.4: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 6
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: MITSUMI Model: USB FDD 061M Rev: 2.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
problem is that every time i insert a disk and attempt to mount it i
get:
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: unknown partition table
SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002
sda: Current: sense key=0x3
ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x0
Info fld=0x24
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 36
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 36
followed by a series of similar messages repeating while the system
attempts to mount it. i can hear the drive spinning when i mount.
i tested it on a win32 system and it picked it up and read a disk ok -
so i figure it works.
i googled for the above to no avail...
i have tried both auto and vfat for the fs type - auto always fails and
vfat does bring up a dir listing in nautilus eventually, though trying
to read any file comes up with an IO error.
has anyone else experienced anything like this?
any suggestions would be most appreciated.
thanks.
Takis
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