On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:52:07PM +0200, Roger Grosswiler wrote: > hi, > > i have a hp omnibook xt 1000 - with no fixed floppy (btw. who still needs floppies today?). delivered with was a > usb-floppy. How can i mount this? i didn't find an appropriate device... First, not all USB floppies are USB compliant, and so some do not show up under Linux. I have a YE Data USB floppy and it works find and dandy under Linux (except for some problems with recent 2.6.x kernels). The first thing to do is see what others have reported bout your drive at the Linux USB Working Devices List, http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/. A floppy drive should show up as /dev/sdX, typically sda unless you have other SCSI devices. I have the following line in my laptop's /etc/fstab: /dev/sda /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 It shows up as sdX rather than sdXn because floppie diskettes are not partitioned. lsusb is your friend. Here is how my USB floppy shows up when I have it plugged into a hub: [root@issola root]# lsusb Bus 001 Device 003: ID 057b:0000 Y-E Data, Inc. FlashBuster-U Floppy Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0409:0058 NEC Corp. HighSpeed Hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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