[ltp] Using a USB floppy on floppyless TPs

[Matt Graham]

On Friday 05 March 2004 10:41, after a long battle with technology, Bert 
Haskins wrote:
> I'm trying to find out how to use a USB floppy on  a 770Z.

modprobe usb-uhci
modprobe usb-storage
(plug USB floppy in, insert disk with a filesystem on it)
mount /dev/sda /mnt/somewhere

...no problem.  The *real* problem with USB floppy drives is that you 
can't easily do a lowlevel format with them.  fdformat only works with 
floppy device nodes; it relies on floppy-device-specific functionality 
and USB devices are always seen as SCSI devices.  Note that floppy 
disks are not partitioned; using /dev/sda1 won't work.  HTH,

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