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

[DonJr]

On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 12:01 -0800, Beartooth wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, DonJr wrote:
> 
> >
> > 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
> 
> [root at topblack ~]# mount floppy
> mount: can't find floppy in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
> [root at topblack ~]# dmesg | grep -i floppy
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root
> [root at topblack ~]# grep -A 5 Vendor /var/log/messages
> [root at topblack ~]# grep -A 5 sony /var/log/messages
> [root at topblack ~]# grep -A 5 Sony /var/log/messages
> [root at topblack ~]#
>  	<shrug>


Ok now try:
    dmesg | grep -i -A 5 -B 3 floppy

  { should output about 8 lines of text }

There was a reference in dmesg about your "Floppy" you just didn't get
enough information about what it had to say.


What does the command:
    lsusb

output?   {lists the usb interface much like lspci does for pci}

If 'lsusb' fails then your usb support driver itself hasn't been loaded.

-- 
  DonJr