On 29/07/14 22:09, Tim Waugh wrote:
On Tue, 2014-07-29 at 15:18 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
If you have non-DOS-format floppies then USB probably won't be any good.
In their wisdom, they made the USB interface only support normal DOS
formats; no 1024-byte sectors, 10 sectors per track of ADFS, for
example.
One of them is labelled 'Minix' so might be ext or something, but the
others will be DOS format. I wondered about external USB floppy drives,
whether it's a standard thing or would need a special driver on Linux.
Tim.
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A USB floppy drive appears to the computer as a USB mass storage device,
so IIRC the computer speaks something like SCSI-over-USB to it and
accesses it as a block device. I think that's why they are limited to
1.44 MB format, because there's no way to set the parameters over USB
mass storage/SCSI commands?
It should appear as /dev/sdX, not /dev/fdX.
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