Mounting USB Floppy in Mandrake 10
Well, I had to get a USB floppy drive. I have lots of stuff on floppies, plus at univ. there are many computers with floppy drives.
I've got a Sony MPF series. Harddrake says it's there, but it's listed as "unknown", and so I can't access it. Someone on another board posted the following: $su #mkdir /mnt/USB #mount -t vfat /dev/sda1(orwhateveritis) /mnt/USB I'm not sure what sda1 means, but I tried that and I've got a USB folder in /mnt, but there's nothing in it, and still not recognizing my drive. I've got a floppy in it already. It does get power, sine everytime I plug it n to a new USB port, the drive light comes on. But no filesystem access. I've got several USB ports. I tried each one, but to no avail. I'd appreciate some ideas, if possible. |
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Look at the ouput of dmesg for messages relating to the USB drive. sd means SCSI disk and 1 is the 1st partition. |
Here's what I typed, including the message I got. The result of all of this was a folder named "USB" in my /mnt folder. Can't really do anything with it.
What I typed: [cs@localhost cs]$ su [root@localhost cs]# #mkdir /mnt/usb [root@localhost cs]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1/mnt/usb What I got: Usage: mount -V : print version mount -h : print this help mount : list mounted filesystems mount -l : idem, including volume labels So far the informational part. Next the mounting. The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'. Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted. mount -a [-t|-O] ... : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab mount device : mount device at the known place mount directory : mount known device here mount -t type dev dir : ordinary mount command Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device. One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere: mount --bind olddir newdir or move a subtree: mount --move olddir newdir A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom, or by label, using -L label or by uuid, using -U uuid . Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd]. For many more details, say man 8 mount . |
I also found this . . .not sure what to amke of it:
Mandrake 10 makes use of the supermount kernel module. After switching to the root user and profile you should be able to `lsmod` and see the supermount module listed. In the mdk 10 implementation you should be able to plug the floppy into a working usb connection, insert a floppy into the drive and do `supermount enable`. If everything is functioning correctly then fstab will contain an odd entry for the floppy drive. When the device becomes active supermount will automagically mount the file system. |
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