Re: Cannot use USB floppy drive in Squeeze
I, actually, used unetbootin and squeeze live cd and it worked great
for me. Just make sure to format the usb fat32 before using
unetbootin.
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:47:30 -0500 (EST), Wayne Topa wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, Wayne, but I need to crawl before I
> can walk. Right now, I can't even shove a floppy into the drive
> without the kernel going bananas. From my research, this is
> looking more and more like a bug. This specific model of USB
> floppy drive was known to work under Etch. See
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2005/07/msg00207.html
>
> I've never known Linux to remove support for a USB device once
> it has been added. Does anyone, anywhere, have a working USB
> floppy drive under Debian Squeeze? If so, I'd like to know about
> it, and what you did to get it working. For the record, here
> is the output of "lsusb -v" for the device:
>
> -----
>
> Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0644:0000 TEAC Corp. Floppy
> Device Descriptor:
> bLength 18
> bDescriptorType 1
> bcdUSB 2.00
> bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
> bDeviceSubClass 0
> bDeviceProtocol 0
> bMaxPacketSize0 8
> idVendor 0x0644 TEAC Corp.
> idProduct 0x0000 Floppy
> bcdDevice 0.00
> iManufacturer 1 TEAC
> iProduct 2 TEAC FD-05PUB
> iSerial 0
> bNumConfigurations 1
> Configuration Descriptor:
> bLength 9
> bDescriptorType 2
> wTotalLength 39
> bNumInterfaces 1
> bConfigurationValue 1
> iConfiguration 0
> bmAttributes 0x80
> (Bus Powered)
> MaxPower 500mA
> Interface Descriptor:
> bLength 9
> bDescriptorType 4
> bInterfaceNumber 0
> bAlternateSetting 0
> bNumEndpoints 3
> bInterfaceClass 8 Mass Storage
> bInterfaceSubClass 4 Floppy (UFI)
> bInterfaceProtocol 0 Control/Bulk/Interrupt
> iInterface 0
> Endpoint Descriptor:
> bLength 7
> bDescriptorType 5
> bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
> bmAttributes 2
> Transfer Type Bulk
> Synch Type None
> Usage Type Data
> wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes
> bInterval 0
> Endpoint Descriptor:
> bLength 7
> bDescriptor Type 5
> bEndpointAddress 0x02 EP 2 OUT
> bmAttributes 2
> Transfer Type Bulk
> Synch Type None
> Usage Type Data
> wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes
> bInterval 0
> Endpoint Descriptor:
> bLength 7
> bDescriptorType 5
> bEndpointAddress 0x83 EP 3 IN
> bmAttributes 3
> Transfer Type Interrupt
> Synch Type None
> Usage Type Data
> wMaxPacketSize 0x0002 1x 2 bytes
> bInterval 32
> Device Status: 0x0000
> (Bus Powered)
>
> -----
>
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