can't see USB Floppy

[clubfoot]

How do I get Knoppix to see a USB floppy drive? I am running Knoppix from CD. I don't really know how to mount a USB floppy, so that might be the problem.

thanks!

[Dave_Bechtel]

1. Boot knoppix
2. After it is up and running, plug the USB drive in
3. ' dmesg | tail ' to see new kernel messages
4. The USB drive should be /dev/sda if you have no other SCSI/emulated devices on the system.
5. ' fdisk -l ' to verify.

How do I get Knoppix to see a USB floppy drive? I am running Knoppix from CD. I don't really know how to mount a USB floppy, so that might be the problem.

thanks!

[gelse]

did exactly what you mentioned, but didnt work.

I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2
scsi1: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 04 00
Info fld=0x8, Current sd08:00: sense key Medium Error
Additional sense indicates Medium format corrupted
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 4
scsi1: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 02 00
Info fld=0x8, Current sd08:00: sense key Medium Error
Additional sense indicates Medium format corrupted
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 6

anyway, it cant open /dev/sda

any idea ?

(is a HP omnibook xt1000)

[Viro]

This is just a guess, but I think you might need to edit your /etc/fstab file.

su
kate /etc/fstab

Now look for an entry that says /dev/sda and /mnt/sda. What you want to do is to change /dev/sda to /dev/sda4, and if there is a # character at the beginning of the line, delete it.

Now you should be able to access the USB floppy.

mount /mnt/sda
cd /mnt/sda
ls

That should bring up all the files on the floppy disk