[NTLUG:Discuss] USB Floppy Drive

[Daniel Hauck]

Dennis Rice さんは書きました:
> I am attempting to have my laptop PC recognize an external USB floppy 
> drive.  It sees all of the thumb drives and external hard drive 
> partitions, but not the floppy.  Attempted to mount the floppy with:
> mount -t vfat /dev/sdx1 /media/floppy (sdx was attempted for multiple 
> values, and floppy directory previously created).  None worked. 
> Running FC5.
> 
> Thoughts please.
> 
> Dennis
> 
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Actually, while the advice other people are giving is generally true and 
correct, what I think you are missing is that there is generally no 
partition structure on floppy media.  So you will want to:

mount -t vfat /dev/sdx /media/floppy

Your reference to /dev/sdx1 implies there is a partition scheme in place 
and if you are attempting to mount a partition on the floppy device, you 
will receive errors in reply.