OK. I can mount the floppy and see its contents. I have to insert the floppy in the floppy drive first and then plug the usb floppy drive to the computer. I did not change anything to the fstab entry.
Thanks for the help Στις Πεμ 18 Μαι 2006 15:23, ο/η Eftaxiopoulos Dimitrios έγραψε: > >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 -- Dr. Dimitrios Eftaxiopoulos Assistant Professor Department of Mechanics School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences National Technical University of Athens Zografou Campus GR-15773 Athens Greece ----------------------------------------------------- tel: +30-210-7721372 fax: +30-210-7721302 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

