Re: BeOS [WAS: Re: Cannot mount usb floppy]

2012-05-08 Thread Ian Malone
On 7 May 2012 16:38, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: >>> >>> Wow! Another BeOS'er! I've still got my original box and CD. It's a >>> shame it went defunct. It was way ahead of it's time. >> >>

Re: BeOS [WAS: Re: Cannot mount usb floppy]

2012-05-07 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: >> >> Wow! Another BeOS'er! I've still got my original box and CD. It's a >> shame it went defunct. It was way ahead of it's time. > > > Yes. :) > > I was mostly a OS/2 Warp 4.x zealot b

Re: BeOS [WAS: Re: Cannot mount usb floppy]

2012-05-07 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > Wow! Another BeOS'er! I've still got my original box and CD. It's a > shame it went defunct. It was way ahead of it's time. > Yes. :) I was mostly a OS/2 Warp 4.x zealot by then,but yes, I got to play with BeOS (4.5 if I remember correctly)

Re: Cannot mount usb floppy

2012-05-07 Thread Ian Chapman
On 05/07/2012 09:33 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: Thanks, Good pointer Ian. And thanks everyone else who also replied. In the end, I decided not to lose any more time with this (after all, all I wanted to do was backing up an ancient BeOS install diskettte to a diskette image file), and proceeded

BeOS [WAS: Re: Cannot mount usb floppy]

2012-05-07 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > Good pointer Ian. And thanks everyone else who also replied. In the end, I > decided not to lose any more time with this (after all, all I wanted to do > was backing up an ancient BeOS install diskettte to a diskette image file), > and proce

Re: Cannot mount usb floppy

2012-05-07 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Ian Chapman wrote: > It may be that the drive isn't getting enough power. I've seen similar > issues with external USB hard disks where they can't get enough power and > reset a lot. Thanks, Good pointer Ian. And thanks everyone else who also replied. In the end

Re: Cannot mount usb floppy

2012-05-07 Thread Ian Chapman
On 05/03/2012 03:41 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: The device that initially shows in lsusb is later removed. # lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0aec:3260 Neodio Technologies Co

Re: Cannot mount usb floppy

2012-05-03 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/03/2012 12:59 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: Yes, pen drives. Those work. Odd. Not odd at all. It just means that your hardware is fine. Have you tried commenting out the floppy line in fstab and trying again? It's possible that there's something in it that's making trouble. -- users ma

Re: Cannot mount usb floppy

2012-05-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/03/2012 02:59 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:54 AM, Joe Zeff mailto:j...@zeff.us>> wrote: > > OK, the device itself is good. Â Have you connected any other usb devices to that port to make sure the port's good? Â Not t

Re: Cannot mount usb floppy

2012-05-03 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:54 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > OK, the device itself is good. Have you connected any other usb devices > to that port to make sure the port's good? Not that I think it isn't, but > it never hurts to be sure. Yes, pen drives. Those work. Odd. I have in /etc/fstab /dev/fd0

Re: Cannot mount usb floppy

2012-05-03 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/03/2012 12:41 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: Thoughts? comments? the same unit works fine when connected to a winXP machine OK, the device itself is good. Have you connected any other usb devices to that port to make sure the port's good? Not that I think it isn't, but it never hurts