External USB floppy drives

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Sun Mar 26 21:11:27 UTC 2017


On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 14:47:41 -0400, Ernie Luzar wrote:
> Polytropon wrote:
> > On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 13:53:10 -0700, john drake via freebsd-questions wrote:
> >> Do you know of an external 3.5 inch  USB floppy drive compatible
> >> with FreeBSD 10.2
> > 
> > I have one labeled IBM, it supports the "da" driver (SCSI direct
> > access). I sadly cannot tell you the exact model, but that is how
> > it appears to the system:
> > 
> > 	ugen2.2: <TEAC> at usbus2
> > 	umass1: <TEAC TEAC FD-05PUB, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 2> on usbus2
> > 	da3 at umass-sim1 bus 1 scbus4 target 0 lun 0
> > 	da3: <TEAC FD-05PUB 3200> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device 
> > 	da3: 1.000MB/s transfers
> > 	da3: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
> > 
> > In this case, no floppy was inside the drive, or the size would have
> > been reported properly. With a floppy inserted, mounting is very
> > simple, for example if you wish to read files from a floppy:
> > 
> > 	# mount -o ro -t msdosfs /dev/da3 /mnt
> > 
> > You can also use dd to create and obtain images. The only tool you
> > cannot use is fdcontrol (because it only works with the "fd" driver).
> > 
> > 
> My local computer store has many like this
> http://www.microcenter.com/product/468304/8x_USB_20_External_DVD_RW_Drive_Black

That is an optical disc drive, not a floppy disk drive. ;-)


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