-----Original Message----- From: m.roth@5-cent.us [mailto:m.roth@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@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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