Re: Problem with NEC USB floppy UF0002

On 25 Feb 2007 04:29:46 -0800, tmp123 staggered into the Black Sun and
said:
: Vendor: NEC Model: USB UF000x Rev: 1.60
: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
: SCSI device sda: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
: sda: unknown partition table

Floppies aren't partitioned, so this error isn't surprising.

All my tries to mount it have failed.

What was the exact command you used? You should be able to do "mount
/dev/sda /mnt/somewhere" if a 1.4M floppy containing a FAT or HFS
filesystem is in the drive. Remember that USB floppy drives have a
really hard time reading 1.7M floppies, and it's not possible to use
fdformat on a USB floppy drive.

dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/foo ; mount -o loop /tmp/foo /mnt/floppy
[works.] Any sugestion about what is [happening]?

Do you have an automounter running? Is that automounter treating all
SCSI disks as partitioned? That could screw things up.

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