Re: floppy drives

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On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 01:46:09PM -0400, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Fred Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 12:21:10PM -0400, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> Frank Cox wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 10:19:33 -0400
> >> > m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hmmm... didn't see it mounted, but I'll try more tonight. Last night
> >> >> included a) playing with system, and b) finishing up our federal
> >> >> taxes....
> <snip>
> >> I also can't seem to find the USB 3.5" drive I borrowed - lsusb sees it
> >> (at least since the last reboot), but trying to find it to mount it is
> >> something I'm still digging at, and I doubt mtools can find it.
> >
> > As far as I remember (I'm not as young as I used to be, and it's been a
> > while), the 3.5" USB floppy drive here would recognize a (formatted)
> > floppy when inserted and mount it automatically, on Centos 5.x.
> > (assuming it contained a recognizable filesystem...)
> 
> Even if there's nothing about floppies in /etc/fstab? Or is that something
> I need to configure for autofs?

As far as I can remember, yes.

> >
> > now that I"m running 6.4, I haven't tried the floppy drive yet.

I'll try it on the 6.4 system that's now running on that box and see
what happens.


> >
> > (I have piles and stacks and drawers of 5.25 and 3.5 inch floppies with
> > various stuff stored on 'em. I used that usb drive (and an internal 5.25
> > inch drive) to grab images of all of them (with dd) which I'll eventually
> > organize and burn onto CD or DVD, so I can get rid of all the floppies.)
> 
> Exactly my goal right now.
> 
>      mark

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