On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 02:07:27 -0500 (EST), Dom <to...@rpdom.net> wrote: > On 25/02/11 02:32, Stephen Powell wrote: >> ... >> Does anyone, anywhere, have a working USB >> floppy drive under Debian Squeeze? If so, I'd like to know about >> it, and what you did to get it working. >> ... > Yes. I have a USB floppy drive that I use occasionally under Squeeze. > I didn't have to configure anything to make it work. I'm using the stock > Debian 2.6.32-5-686 kernel. > > It is a Sony drive, rather than TEAC. > > My lsusb seems to be the same as yours, apart from vendor/manufacturer > lines, and this line: > > iInterface 4 FLOPPY > > I don't know if that helps.
I have found the culprit: it was a bad floppy disk! The media was physically defective and was causing I/O errors. Once I put a good floppy in it, everything worked fine. How embarrassing! Thanks to all who replied, and sorry for the noise. While I'm on the subject, though, I/O errors do seem to be a weakness of Linux. In DOS or Windows, it would have tried about 5 times to read the sector and then given up. In Linux, it seems that a single bad sector can put the Kernel into an (almost) infinite loop and (almost) fill the hard drive with log messages! -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/19921829.1073408.1298681350063.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com