[Novalug] How the blazes do I write to a floppy?

[Beartooth]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, DonJr wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 12:01 -0800, Beartooth wrote:
 	[...]
>> [root at topblack ~]# grep -A 5 Sony /var/log/messages
>> [root at topblack ~]#
>>  	<shrug>
>
>
> Ok now try:
>    dmesg | grep -i -A 5 -B 3 floppy
>
>  { should output about 8 lines of text }

[root at topblack ~]# dmesg | grep -i -A 5 -B 3 floppy
usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 
0x03F0 pid 0x3F11
usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input5
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
parport_pc 00:06: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.5[C] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 
20
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64
[root at topblack ~]#

 	(All of which is Geek to me ...)

> There was a reference in dmesg about your "Floppy" you just 
> didn't get enough information about what it had to say.
>
>
> What does the command:
>    lsusb
>
> output?  {lists the usb interface much like lspci does for pci}
>
> If 'lsusb' fails then your usb support driver itself hasn't 
> been loaded.

 	Well, at least now it sees it. (The HP is the printer.)

[root at topblack ~]# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 004: ID 054c:002c Sony Corp. USB Floppy Disk Drive
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 03f0:3f11 Hewlett-Packard 
PSC-1315/PSC-1317
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
[root at topblack ~]#

 	I neglected to mention at one point that I had gotten an 
error saying "Only root can do that!"

[btth at topblack ~]$ mount /home/btth/DSLbootfloppy-grub.img 
/dev/floppy
mount: only root can do that
[btth at topblack ~]$

 	-- but when I tried it as root, it didn't help :

[root at topblack btth]# mount /home/btth/DSLbootfloppy-grub.img 
/dev/floppy
mount: /home/btth/DSLbootfloppy-grub.img is not a block device 
(maybe try `-o loop'?)
[root at topblack btth]#

 	-- nor did this (afaict) :

[root at topblack btth]# file /home/btth/DSLbootfloppy-grub.img
/home/btth/DSLbootfloppy-grub.img: x86 boot sector; GRand Unified 
Bootloader, stage1 version 0x3, boot drive 0x0, 1st sector stage2 
0x5a, GRUB version n.m, code offset 0x48
[root at topblack btth]#

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