Re: USB floppy Drive
After sleeping on it last night, I woke up this morning with the solution. Your help was invaluable in nudging me there and I thank you for your help and time.
What I forgot, and what I finally remembered after seeing that Dolphin was trying to mount the floppy as sdh, was that besides the 3 HD, I have 2 DVD reader/writers (sdd & sde) and 2 memory card readers (sde & sdf). Thus, the floppy becomes sdh as Dolphin was trying to tell me.
I altered your fstab entry to read:
/dev/sdh /media/floppy0 vfat rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0
Note that I had to change the "auto" to vfat after KwickDisk complained about not knowing the type of media to mount. With the vfat, no problem and since floppies are all vfat coming from MSDOS, there is no problem.
Then when I plug the USB floppy drive into the USB port, a window opens for me to decide what to do, I click Okay to open in a new window and then Dolphin (and now Konqueor) opens with the floppy drive directory displayed.
I found that there is no icon displayed on the desktop as with DVD/CD-ROMs when plug the USB floppy into the USB port.
I also found that if I just leave the USB drive plugged into the USB port all the time, that since I have KwikDisk docked on the taskbar, I can click on KwickDisk, it pops up the drives and I can then click on /media/floppy0 and the disk in the drive is mounted and ready to use. Repeat and the disk is unmounted when done and I can remove the disk.
Again thank you for your valuable time and help. Doubt that I would have been able to accomplish the task without you.
After sleeping on it last night, I woke up this morning with the solution. Your help was invaluable in nudging me there and I thank you for your help and time.
What I forgot, and what I finally remembered after seeing that Dolphin was trying to mount the floppy as sdh, was that besides the 3 HD, I have 2 DVD reader/writers (sdd & sde) and 2 memory card readers (sde & sdf). Thus, the floppy becomes sdh as Dolphin was trying to tell me.
I altered your fstab entry to read:
/dev/sdh /media/floppy0 vfat rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0
Note that I had to change the "auto" to vfat after KwickDisk complained about not knowing the type of media to mount. With the vfat, no problem and since floppies are all vfat coming from MSDOS, there is no problem.
Then when I plug the USB floppy drive into the USB port, a window opens for me to decide what to do, I click Okay to open in a new window and then Dolphin (and now Konqueor) opens with the floppy drive directory displayed.
I found that there is no icon displayed on the desktop as with DVD/CD-ROMs when plug the USB floppy into the USB port.
I also found that if I just leave the USB drive plugged into the USB port all the time, that since I have KwikDisk docked on the taskbar, I can click on KwickDisk, it pops up the drives and I can then click on /media/floppy0 and the disk in the drive is mounted and ready to use. Repeat and the disk is unmounted when done and I can remove the disk.
Again thank you for your valuable time and help. Doubt that I would have been able to accomplish the task without you.
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