On Tue, April 9, 2013 13:46, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Fred Smith wrote:
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 12:21:10PM -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
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....
<snip> >> 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. > > As far as I remember (I'm not as young as I used to be, and it's > been a > while), the 3.5" USB floppy drive here would recognize a (formatted) > floppy when inserted and mount it automatically, on Centos 5.x. > (assuming it contained a recognizable filesystem...)
Even if there's nothing about floppies in /etc/fstab? Or is that something I need to configure for autofs?
Just to obtain some empirical data I have connected a usb 3.5 FDD unit to my CentOS-6.4 workstation and inserted a previously unused 3.5 HDFD. The Nautilus system automatically opened a window on my desktop and I was able to copy and removed files from the diskette without any difficulty.
A peek into /media shows this:
# tree /media /media └── disk
1 directory, 0 files
While /etc/fstab shows me nothing that obviously relates to the fdd:
# cat /etc/fstab
# # /etc/fstab # Created by anaconda on Mon Sep 24 12:57:28 2012 # # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk' # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info # /dev/mapper/vg_vhost04-lv_root / ext4 defaults 1 1 UUID=a9a7cc59-bd0c-4362-9ab6-f721e25df2f8 /boot ext4 defaults 1 2 /dev/mapper/vg_vhost04-lv_home /home ext4 defaults 1 2 /dev/mapper/vg_vhost04-lv_tmp /tmp ext4 defaults 1 2 /dev/mapper/vg_vhost04-lv_log /var/log ext4 defaults 1 2 /dev/mapper/vg_vhost04-lv_spool /var/spool ext4 defaults 1 2 /dev/mapper/vg_vhost04-lv_swap swap swap defaults 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/vg_vhost04/lv_centos_repos /var/data/centos ext4 defaults 00 /dev/vg_vhost04/lv_home_byrnejb /home/byrnejb ext4 defaults 0 0
Mount on the other hand shows this:
/dev/sdb on /media/disk type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=500,gid=500,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,flush)
And udisks show this:
howing information for /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sdb native-path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/host10/target10:0:0/10:0:0:0/block/sdb device: 8:16 device-file: /dev/sdb presentation: /dev/sdb by-id: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Y-E_DATA_USB_Floppy_Drive by-path: /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1a.0-usb-0:1:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 detected at: Wed 10 Apr 2013 09:08:55 EDT system internal: 0 removable: 1 has media: 1 (detected at Wed 10 Apr 2013 09:09:07 EDT) detects change: 1 detection by polling: 1 detection inhibitable: 1 detection inhibited: 0 is read only: 0 is mounted: 1 mount paths: /media/disk mounted by uid: 500 presentation hide: 0 presentation nopolicy: 0 presentation name: presentation icon: size: 1474560 block size: 512 job underway: no usage: filesystem type: vfat version: FAT12 uuid: label: drive: vendor: Y-E DATA model: USB Floppy Drive revision: 0601 serial: WWN: detachable: 1 can spindown: 0 rotational media: Yes, unknown rate write-cache: unknown ejectable: 0 adapter: Unknown ports: similar devices: media: floppy compat: floppy interface: usb if speed: 12000000 bits/s ATA SMART: not available
James B. Byrne wrote:
On Tue, April 9, 2013 13:46, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Fred Smith wrote:
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 12:21:10PM -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
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....
<snip> >> 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.
<snip>
Even if there's nothing about floppies in /etc/fstab? Or is that something I need to configure for autofs?
Just to obtain some empirical data I have connected a usb 3.5 FDD unit to my CentOS-6.4 workstation and inserted a previously unused 3.5 HDFD. The Nautilus system automatically opened a window on my desktop and I was able to copy and removed files from the diskette without any difficulty.
<interesting data snipped>
I need to look at this more closely, which I'll do this evening. Last night, I didn't get to touch it - got one state and one commonwealth worth of taxes to finish, and then there was the document that I had to get to my (contracting co) manager, whose formatting was screwed up in libreoffice, and I *had* to use my work laptop and M$ Office, and Word.... <rant> I thought 07, was it? was Not Good; this is absolute and UTTER CRAP. For example, I want some bullet points, and if a sentence is longer than one line, I want the second and any other lines indented from the start of the bullet.
Couldn't do it. Wouldn't let me.
And trying to copy from an editable field, and it only giving me the whole section, not just what I was highlighting.... And on, and on....
In conclusion, Office 2010, esp. on a laptop, makes me want to beat the laptop on fireplug until it's rubble, and then head on across the country to Redmond, picking up a machine gun and grenades on the way..... </rant>
Sorry, way off topic....
mark
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