Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 23:15:00 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: john drake <diewolfsschanze@yahoo.com> Cc: john drake via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: External USB floppy drives Message-ID: <20170325231500.edd6b184.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <81B78129-37AC-49DD-A76C-996F0C8CDADF@yahoo.com> References: <81B78129-37AC-49DD-A76C-996F0C8CDADF@yahoo.com>
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On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 13:53:10 -0700, john drake via freebsd-questions wrote: > Do you know of an external 3.5 inch USB floppy drive compatible > with FreeBSD 10.2 I have one labeled IBM, it supports the "da" driver (SCSI direct access). I sadly cannot tell you the exact model, but that is how it appears to the system: ugen2.2: <TEAC> at usbus2 umass1: <TEAC TEAC FD-05PUB, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 2> on usbus2 da3 at umass-sim1 bus 1 scbus4 target 0 lun 0 da3: <TEAC FD-05PUB 3200> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da3: 1.000MB/s transfers da3: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present In this case, no floppy was inside the drive, or the size would have been reported properly. With a floppy inserted, mounting is very simple, for example if you wish to read files from a floppy: # mount -o ro -t msdosfs /dev/da3 /mnt You can also use dd to create and obtain images. The only tool you cannot use is fdcontrol (because it only works with the "fd" driver). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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