LTD602 Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 I need an external floppy (3.5 inch) USB drive. I'm kinda worried about compatibility. Anyone know any good ones that will work with Mandrake 10 Official Edition ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 NEC UF0002 usb floppy, costs round about 35 €, works good on all linux distros i used so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 I would assume that most USB floppy drives would work as they probably follow the USB-mass storage standard. What do you need the drive for? If I were you, I would grab a sd-card reader, they aren't big nor expensice, then go buy a SD card.. if you want one even cheaper than retail, go have a look on ebay, thats where I got mine :D Well, thats what I do, more storage and faster, and smaller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 15, 2004 Report Share Posted October 15, 2004 I would assume that most USB floppy drives would work as they probably follow the USB-mass storage standard. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> uhh... you are right... seems as if i need some sleep. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTD602 Posted October 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 Thanks for the info, guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTD602 Posted October 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 Well, I had to get a USB floppy drive. I have lots of stuff on floppies, plus at univ. there are many computers with floppy drives. I've got a Sony MPF series. Harddrake says it's there, but it's listed as "unknown", and so I can't access it. Someone on another board posted the following: $su #mkdir /mnt/USB #mount -t vfat /dev/sda1(orwhateveritis) /mnt/USB I'm not sure what sda1 means, but I tried that and I've got a USB folder in /mnt, but there's nothing in it, and still not recognizing my drive. I've got a floppy in it already. It does get power, sine everytime I plug it n to a new USB port, the drive light comes on. But no filesystem access. I've got several USB ports. I tried each one, but to no avail. I'd appreciate some ideas, if possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTD602 Posted October 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 (edited) I found this . . . how do I enable supermount? "Mandrake 10 makes use of the supermount kernel module. After switching to the root user and profile you should be able to `lsmod` and see the supermount module listed. In the mdk 10 implementation you should be able to plug the floppy into a working usb connection, insert a floppy into the drive and do `supermount enable`. If everything is functioning correctly then fstab will contain an odd entry for the floppy drive. When the device becomes active supermount will automagically mount the file system." Edited October 16, 2004 by LTD602 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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