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by sfisher

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Hello,

I am in need of any information you can give me on this. Our company is largely a Microsoft house except for a couple of computers running Linux. One is a dying/unused server, but the other runs a CNC machine in our shop. We need to install an external floppy drive on it but I have no idea whatsoever as to how to get it to recognize the drive. I did start working in the manual days of DOS, but now I'm terribly spoiled with the Windows plug-n-play feature. Thanks for any help!
Susan

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On Mandrake systems you need to 'mount' the drive first, and unmount (actually umount) afterwards. For example: mount /media/floppy cd /media/floppy ls umount /media/floppy Other drives are probably named as follows: /media/cdrom /media/cdrom2 /media/zip See /etc/fstab and /etc/auto.misc for details.

How do I access the floppy drive on a Linux machine?
CS. Dept. Network FAQ
mount /mnt/floppy You should then be able to find your files located under /mnt/floppy. Please don't forget to unmount when you're done: umount /mnt/floppy Removing the floppy disk without unmounting might corrupt your data files, and it will render the floppy drive un-usable for the next user. Note: Be sure you are no longer in the /mnt/floppy directory or you will get a "device busy" error when attempting to unmount.

http://www.usenet-forums.com/linux-general/75451-usb-external-floppy-drive-under-kernel-2-6-a.html
http://web.singnet.com.sg/~anupmc/Linux_on_6200MMX.html#ext-floppy
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/i-cant-get-the-uuid-of-my-external-floppy-drive-649186/
http://www.querycat.com/faq/218fc7283a7c5f4b3fab0a328bc72965
Hope this helps you.

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