[NTLUG:Discuss] USB Floppy Drive

[Daniel Hauck]

Daniel Hauck :
> Dennis Rice :
>> 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.
> 
> 
Just as a quick follow-up, I plugged in my own USB floppy drive and F7 
auto-mounted it.  Pretty nice.  But further, I decided to manually 
unmount and then I ran fdisk on it. :)  I set up a partition on a floppy 
and it worked!  Pretty cute putting a hard drive partition on a floppy. 
  But it's proof that my theoretical "floppy RAID" is certainly do-able 
even if it is pretty ridiculous. :)