On Tue, April 9, 2013 13:46, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Fred Smith wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 12:21:10PM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>> 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.... > <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 -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3