On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for you reply: > > The basics: > > A USB floppy disk drive does *not* live on /dev/fd?, it lives as a > SCSI disk drive, by virtue of the USB storage device protocols.
Ok, I did not know that to start with > > So: > > Do you have USB mass-storage support, SCSI support and SCSI disk > support all compiled in, or as modules? As modules I think lsmod | grep usb gives me usb-storage 60960 0 (unused) usb-ohci 18184 0 (unused) usbcore 57472 0 [usb-storage hid usb-ohci] > > If so, do they correctly load and identify the floppy drive as a > SCSI mass storage device? > > If so, what happens when you access /dev/sd0? mount -t ext3 /dev/scd0 /floppy/ mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: No medium found And nothing happens Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]