On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Chuck Hast wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:04:40 -0500, Mario Lombardo
> <mario@alienscience.com> wrote:
> > My USB floppy mounts as the last SCSI device. Some distros
> > auto-populate /etc/fstab.
> >
> > tail /etc/fstab
> >
> > My USB floppy in /etc/fstab (auto-populated?):
> > /dev/sdc /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> >
> > Note, it's not /dev/sdc1,sdc3, etc. This is unlike SCSI HDs
>
> It has a good floppy, and the XP partition when up and running will see it and
> read/write to the disk just fine. But when I bring up SuSE it does not
> see it I see
> the drive cycling and hear the motors in it running but do not see where it is
> found by anything
Try "file - < /dev/sda" (or whatever "SCSI disk" it is) to see if you can
read it at all. "file" provides remarkably unhelpful information dor
trying to decide what filesystem is used on a disk, but in this case it
works.
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