[Novalug] How the blazes do I write to a floppy?

[DonJr]

On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 07:50 -0800, Beartooth wrote:
  <SNIP>
>  	The new machine with the external USB floppy drive still 
> won't let me write to one, even with dd! I get, for instance, :
> 
> [root at topblack btth]# dd if=DSLbootfloppy-grub.img of=/dev/fd0
> dd: opening `/dev/fd0': Read-only file system
> [root at topblack btth]# gfloppy
> [root at topblack btth]#
> 
>  	[The gfloppy command did nothing, afaict -- even though 
> man gfloppy tells me I need mtools, and yum tells me :
> 
> Package mtools - 3.9.11-2.fc8.i386 is already installed

Most likely that's because the floppy is using a /dev/sd? {something}
interface. To find out which SCSI interface you might try:

   dmesg | grep -i floppy

or
    grep -A 5 Vendor /var/log/messages

    The next line talking about a sd? interface should be it

-- 
 DonJr