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How to mount USB floppy drive for RH 7.2
Name: Michael Date: July 8, 2002 at 07:41:42 Pacific
Comment:
Hi, I'm running RH 7.2 for my laptop and I'm facing problem whereby it is unable to mount the USB floppy drive. I've tried to seacrh for info. if the kernel has USB support for USB floppy but to no avail. May I have some advice, pls?
Name: Lawrence Date: July 8, 2002 at 08:58:45 Pacific
Reply:
Check to see whether your kernel supports USB which I believe it does since I have RedHat Linux 7.2 running on my computer as well. Just run the command "dmesg" to check on that. On my system, I have to mount the Iomega USB 100 MB Zip drive as /dev/sda4!
E-mail if you need further help.
Lawrence
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Response Number 2
Name: Barry Date: July 8, 2002 at 16:18:41 Pacific
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If the advice Lawrence gives does not work, then perhaps you have USB modularized. Try doing "lsmod" to see if the usbcore module is loaded. If not, try "modprobe uhci" or "modprobe ohci" (try the uhci first). If that works without error (check again with "lsmod"), then try mounting the floppy with something like:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/floppy
This assumes it's a dos floppy and that the directory /mnt/floppy exists. A USB floppy is normally seen as a scsi disk, and if it's the only "scsi" device on your system, then it will be seen as sda.
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