On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Steven Buehler wrote:
> > I can see two ways to mount the floppy in the GUI, but when I click on
> > either of them the floppy doesn't mount. This is true regardless of
> > user or root.
> >
> > This didn't come up at the meeting because I didn't have the floppy
> > with me. And I almost had identified every issue!
> >
> > The one thing I found on the web:
> >
> > "If it's a USB floppy then the kernel will assign it a USB device
> > node, most likely /dev/sda, not /dev/fd0. During initial bootup (ie
> > prior to the linux kernel loading) they are usually recognized as
> > standard floppy drives, ie /dev/fd0, but this is something the BIOS
> > provides so that they may be used as an initial boot device, a trick
> > if you will. In order for it to work under Linux, the kernel will need
> > USB support and USB Mass Storage support."
>
> Try connecting it at boot time, then do the command 'lspart' to see how
> it picks it up, if at all (I have seen some USB mass storage devices
> (including floppies) where Linux recognizes the MBR as the partition
> (i.e., /dev/sda instead of /dev/sda1). That especially seems to happen
> with Memory Stick and MMC media.
That'd certainly be an odd floppy if it had partitions. My USB floppy
drive shows its media as /dev/sda (no partition table), after I load
usb-storage.o .
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