HOWTO mount a usbfloppy - part 2

Charles Curley charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Sat Aug 14 16:44:16 UTC 2004


On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 04:02:11PM +0200, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in advance thanks to all helping me before with this issue. The thing
> with the hardwarebrowser was quite a good idea - my usbfloppy does not
> get any /dev/xxx entry at all. 
> 
> All information about in the hardwarebrowser are:
> 
> 
> Chosen device: Mitsumi Mitsumi USB FDD
> Device Information: 
> Supplier: Mitsumi
> Driver: usb-storage
> 
> but - how can i mount now this device??

It should show up as /dev/sda (not sda1: it has no partitions). Look
at /var/log/messages for a message on whether the USB system detected
it. If you have a 2.6 kernel, that message should also give you the
device name where you can mount it.

-- 

Charles Curley                  /"\    ASCII Ribbon Campaign
Looking for fine software       \ /    Respect for open standards
and/or writing?                  X     No HTML/RTF in email
http://www.charlescurley.com    / \    No M$ Word docs in email

Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0  809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/attachments/20040814/07df0c7f/attachment-0001.sig>


More information about the fedora-list mailing list