USB Floppy drive...

10xOXR · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 17 Location: Scotland

Hello ppl,

Linux n00b, have just finished installing Gentoo and all is working well for the moment. Only one problem in the shape of my Sony USB floppy drive - I have no idea whatsoever on how to install the thing under Gentoo. Do I have to specify it in /etc/fstab or is there some other cunning way of doing so? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Off to recompile/install the kernel now as I need USB ADSL support from those nice folks at Flashtux.org...<sigh>...I'm sure it'll all be worth it to be free of Mr Gates forever.

Thanks folks

10x...

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TheCoop · Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 9:19 pm Post subject:

the usb mass storage driver works fine for my usb floppy drive, it creates /dev/sda (mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/floppy) but ive got udev setup so it creates it at /dev/usbfloppy

/etc/fstab line:
/dev/{usbfloppy,sda} /mnt/floppy users,noauto 0 0
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10xOXR · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 17 Location: Scotland

It works!!!

Thanks so much!

10x...
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