[CentOS] floppy drives

[Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: m.roth at 5-cent.us [mailto:m.roth at 5-cent.us]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 12:21
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] floppy drives
> 
> Frank Cox wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 10:19:33 -0400
> > m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> >
> >> Hmmm... didn't see it mounted, but I'll try more tonight. Last night
> >> included a) playing with system, and b) finishing up our federal
> >> taxes....
> >
> > If you're going to use mtools to do your copying, you don't need to
> mount
> > the disks.
> 
> mtools is a desperation move, since I haven't actually read anything
> from
> anything yet. As I mentioned, I *may* have an old drive head cleaner
> somewhere - since it's not been used in about a decade, I'm thinking of
> corrosion or crud.
> 
> I also can't seem to find the USB 3.5" drive I borrowed - lsusb sees it
> (at least since the last reboot), but trying to find it to mount it is
> something I'm still digging at, and I doubt mtools can find it.
> 
>      mark
> 

Note: the USB floppy may be showing up as /dev/sd[bcd...n]
At least that is what happened when I used one on RHEL/CentOS5 a while back.

I suggest unplugging the USB floppy, execute `ls /dev/sd* /dev/fd*`, 
plug it in and execute `ls /dev/sd* /dev/fd*`, and then note the differences.

{there are probably hal/udev/inotify games you could do, but I like old fashioned things.}

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