If you do this:
/sbin/lsmod | grep usb
Do you see the usb-storage module? If so, I would try:
mount -t auto /dev/sda /mnt/floppy
I sort of guessing at this point. I still don't understand how Linux figures
out where to attach hot devices. This information is merely from experience.
/mario
On Sunday 31 October 2004 18:01, Eben King wrote:
> 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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