How do I find a floppy drive in /dev (not in /dev/fd!)?
I have purchased a Mitsumi USB (external) floppy drive, and, having attached
it to my computer, I am trying to find where it is located in /dev. I would
like to use the udev system, and the command udevinfo, but it seems I have to
specify the location of the floppy drive in /dev first, and I don't know how
to do that.
The computer sees the device:
paris:/dev# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATA Model: ST3120813AS Rev: 2AAA
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATA Model: ST3120813AS Rev: 2AAA
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: MITSUMI Model: USB FDD 061M Rev: 2.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
I have looked in all the obvious places, like /dev/fd:
*****************commands**********************
paris:/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/floppy# cd /dev/fd
paris:/dev/fd# ls
0 1 2 255
paris:/dev/fd# ls -l
total 4
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jan 16 11:44 0 -> /dev/pts/3
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jan 16 21:36 1 -> /dev/pts/3
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jan 16 21:36 2 -> /dev/pts/3
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jan 16 21:36 255 -> /dev/pts/3
paris:/dev/fd# cd /dev/pts
paris:/dev/pts# ls -l
total 0
crw--w---- 1 peter tty 136, 0 Jan 16 11:43 0
crw------- 1 peter tty 136, 1 Jan 16 21:32 1
crw------- 1 peter tty 136, 2 Jan 16 21:06 2
crw------- 1 peter tty 136, 3 Jan 16 21:36 3
paris:/dev/pts# superformat /dev/pts/3
Not a floppy drive
paris:/dev/pts#
******************end commands*******************
Can't find it. So I can't use commands like
superformat /dev/???
udevinfo /dev/???
And I can't write a rule for udev to map the device to a convenient place. It
seems like I have to find it first! How can I do that? Do I really have to
just look around until I find it, or is there some systematic way to find it?
Pete
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