Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> I installed Knoppix 3.3 with debian woody. The external USB floppy
> shipped by IBM works with Windows XP, but I cannot access it from
> linux.
> Can anybody help me please?
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.
So:
Do you have USB mass-storage support, SCSI support and SCSI
disk support all compiled in, or as modules?
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?
If one of these steps fails, what are the errors you get?
Daniel
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