Can't get my external USB floppy drive to detect media
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Can't get my external USB floppy drive to detect media
System: Debian wheezy
The external USB floppy drive seems to flash with its green led, access the disk, and then stop. The contents of the disk, regardless of formatting, don't appear in the filesystem file manager.
Code:
workstation@universe:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0846:4260 NetGear, Inc. WG111v3 54 Mbps Wireless [realtek RTL8187B]
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 03ee:6901 Mitsumi SmartDisk FDD
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 03f0:4b11 Hewlett-Packard OfficeJet 6200
Quote:
root@universe:/home/workstation# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0006137b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 976760831 488379392 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 976762878 1465141247 244189185 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 976762880 1465141247 244189184 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 1 MB, 1474560 bytes
1 heads, 3 sectors/track, 960 cylinders, total 2880 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
I thought floppys were extinct by now. But since you seem to still have one, I'll see what I can do for you. From what I can tell, your floppy is actually accessed. Otherwise you shouldn't have gotten the information from fdisk -l. (After all, that is read from the disk itself; you could have inseerted a 720Kb disk and the output would have been different).
The post you're referring to is about 5 years old, so I don't think it's relevant anymore. So can you mount the floppy manually? Run
True the floppy module is not automatically loaded any more but it is just for the legacy floppy disk controller and not required for USB devices.
My USB floppy drive isn't handy at the moment to check and I don't remember if the disk was auto mounted like regular flash devices. Since it is recognised I would try to mount the disk as suggested in post #2. Also check the output of the dmesg command to check for errors.
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