Re: Cannot use USB floppy drive in Squeeze

[Wayne Topa <linuxtwo@gmail.com>]

On 02/23/2011 07:27 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> I have recently install Debian Squeeze on an IBM ThinkPad X31.  It has
> an external USB-attached floppy drive.  The BIOS sees it.  I can boot
> from it just fine, and when running Windows 95 in MS-DOS mode (no WIN.EXE
> running) I can access it as drive "A:".  I used the FORMAT command of
> Windows 95 in MS-DOS mode to format a floppy disk (1.44M) without any
> trouble.
>
> When Squeeze boots, the following messages from dmesg appear to
> be relevant:

<< SNIP >>

Not having a usb floppy I am just throwing this out there

Have you installed the  ufiformat package?   A search of the package
lists only show that (might) be helpful.

HTH
Wayne
> sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code
> sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
> sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
> Info fld=0x3
> sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: Address mark not found for data field
> sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00
> end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 3
> Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
>
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>
> My next step was going to be dumping a disk image to it with "dd",
> (diskette is R/W) but no I/O to the floppy drive is possible.
>
> The bottom line is that the floppy drive is not usable.  What is wrong
> here?  I did some searching on the internet, and I've seen other
> posts with similar error messages, but none of them seem to match
> my situation.