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USB Floppy Drive
The actual instructions on making the floppy work have now been tested not only with RH6.2 but also Slackware 8, with no problems at all, running with 2.4.2 and 2.4.17 Kernels. That said there should be no problems with 2.4.2 or later Kernels and other distributions. If you get problems let me know and I will see what can be done to help.
USB
The USB floppy and the Memory stick are supported via the USB mass storage driver which in turn needs SCSI emulation. The floppy and memory stick are both accessed as emulated SCSI devices.
Kernel Configuration
Now if you are using my optimized Kernel you already have everything you need. So for those who are not using this Kernel or are just interested here are the Kernel settings you need to use.
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General Setup
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Support for hot-pluggable devices
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Yes
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Block Devices.
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Normal PC Floppy disk support
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No
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SCSI
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SCSI Support
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Yes
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SCSI Generic Support
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Yes
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SCSI Disk Support
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Yes
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USB Support
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Support for USB
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Yes
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USB Verbose debug messages
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Optional
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Preliminary USB Device filesystem
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Yes
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UHCI (Intel PII4X, VIA,..) support
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Yes
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USB Mass storage
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Yes
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USB Mass storage verbose debug
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Optional
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On the first reboot, after the Kernel compile, if you are running RH6.2, kudzu (the hardware discover tool) pops up and finds a Y-e data USB-FDU drive and prompts you to configure it. And also finds a Sony MSC-U01N which is the memory stick slot, which I have no way of testing. If someone wants to supply me with a memory stick I will be happy to test that also.
Accessing the drive.
The device used to access the drive depends on the state at boot up. I urge you to read this section very carefully as you will be unable to access the drive without the correct device name
- boot up with the drive attached, its detected and runs as
/dev/sda
- boot up without the drive attached, the memory stick is /dev/sda the floppy is
/dev/sdb
- boot up without the drive attached, now hookup the drive, hot plug actually works, drive is detected and runs as
/dev/sdb (tested in and out of X)
Mounting the device
before you can use this drive you need to make a mount point for it (assuming you do not already have one), to do this login as root and rung the following command :-
mkdir /mnt/floppy
Now with the mount point created, and with the device name known (see above for that one) you can access the drive with the following command :-
mount /dev/sda /mnt/floppy
or
mount /dev/sdb /mnt/floppy
More information on this Y-E Data drive
There is not much to say about this USB floppy drive, but for those interested you can find the specs here on the Y-E Data English WEB site. Note this is the OEM version, which is the one used by Sony, the only known difference is the case.
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