Walt Hutchens:
> Tails 1.3 booted on a Dell Dimension 3000 from a DVD.  It seems to
> work fine -- can access the web via TOR, etc.  HOWEVER ...

Great.

> Though the floppy drive is visible in 'my computer' no floppy can ever
> be seen.  The select light on the drive does come on when expected --
> if I try to open the drive with a disk inserted, for example -- but
> the status is always 'no medium.'
> The drive works fine under Win XP when I boot from the HDD in the
> usual way.

OK... you're really trying to read floppy disks?

> I'm guessing that this means that this Mitsumi drive isn't supported
> by this version of Linux?   There must be a list of supported devices
> somewhere?

No idea. Tails is based on Debian stable (Wheezy), so you should check
if it works in Debian. Doing a fast search, I found
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/can%27t-get-my-external-usb-floppy-drive-to-detect-media-4175510073/
so you should test their recommandations.

> Or am I all wet on this?

I've learned a new english expression :)

Cheers,

 BitingBird
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