>After plugging in the floppy drive take a look at the system messages:
>dmesg | tail -40 >Is your floppy drive really registered as sdb? This is the output of dmesg | tail -40. I don't know what it means. usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using address 5 scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: NEC Model: USB UF000x Rev: 1.50 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi4, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Vendor: NEC Model: USB UF000x Rev: 1.50 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi4, channel 0, id 0, lun 1 Vendor: NEC Model: USB UF000x Rev: 1.50 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi4, channel 0, id 0, lun 2 Vendor: NEC Model: USB UF000x Rev: 1.50 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sdd at scsi4, channel 0, id 0, lun 3 Vendor: NEC Model: USB UF000x Rev: 1.50 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sde at scsi4, channel 0, id 0, lun 4 Vendor: NEC Model: USB UF000x Rev: 1.50 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sdf at scsi4, channel 0, id 0, lun 5 Vendor: NEC Model: USB UF000x Rev: 1.50 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sdg at scsi4, channel 0, id 0, lun 6 Vendor: NEC Model: USB UF000x Rev: 1.50 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sdh at scsi4, channel 0, id 0, lun 7 USB Mass Storage device found at 5
