Subject: Re: USB floppy support?
From: Chip Witt (chip.witt@westwave.com)
Date: Mon Nov 05 2001 - 18:18:55 MST
Ron,
Your USB floppy will appear as a SCSI device (SCSI emulation). When I plug mine
in, it shows up as /dev/sda. In order to use it easily, I added a line to my
/etc/fstab file (su to root or you cannot make changes). The line looks like
this:
/dev/sda /mnt/floppy auto noauto,rw,user 0 0
/mnt/floppy should already exist, but it may be a good idea to make sure.
You should be able pop a floppy in the drive and type:
mount /mnt/floppy
cd /mnt/floppy
ls
...and see the contents of your floppy disk.
CW
Ronald Hale-Evans wrote:
> I've Googled around and searched the yellowdog-general archives, but I
> can't find an answer. How can I mount a floppy in my USB floppy
> drive? I am running the 2.4 kernel that came with the YDL 2.1 distro,
> and my floppy drive is the VST iMac model.
>
> If I could get this working, it would be one less reason to boot into
> MacOS. I'm aspiring to sainthood in the Church of Emacs. That floppy
> drive icon in the upper-left corner of my KDE screen looks so
> tempting...
>
> Ron H-E
>
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