USB floppy

[illoai at gmail.com]

2009/7/28 Alex Keda <admin at lissyara.su>:
> Hi, all =)
> I have USB floppy.
> When I plug it, I see in the messages log:
>
> Jul 28 21:05:02 HP kernel: ugen0.3: <MITSUMI> at usbus0
> Jul 28 21:05:02 HP kernel: umass0: <MITSUMI MITSUMI USB FDD 061M, class 0/0,
> rev 1.10/2.00, addr 3> on usbus0
> Jul 28 21:05:02 HP kernel: umass0:  SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x0100
> Jul 28 21:05:03 HP kernel: umass0:2:0:-1: Attached to scbus2
>
> But... What I can mount? =)
>

(I've never used a USB floppy, so I have a deficit
of direct knowledge)

You obviously won't be able to mount anything if
there is no disk in the drive.

As I recall (and it has been a few years since I
even saw a floppy disk) most drives are not
auto-sensing, so you have to rile it up a bit by
trying to read /dev/fd0c (I think)
dd if=/dev/fd0c of=/dev/null count=1
(or variations on that tune)
(for all I know USB floppies are /dev/daN)

I would look at the output of
ls -lrt /dev/ | tail
And see if anything interesting showed up.

You can probably play with camcontrol(8) in this
context too.

Hopefully someone who has used one can give
better help.

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