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USB external floppy recommendations?


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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.

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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.

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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."

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