Re: USB Floppy Disk Driver

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Mon May 14 2018 - 21:07:02 EST


On 05/14/2018 05:51 PM, Joshua Hudson wrote:
> Has anybody tried the USB floppy disk driver in awhile? I just did to
> read an old disk, and I couldn't read a single byte.
>
> I started thinking maybe the hardware's bad, but dd didn't raise en
> error even after I pulled it out and got "USB Disconnect" on the
> screen from kernel log.
>
> I still don't know if the code is broken or if my hardware's bad. It
> worked 15 years ago with a 2.6 series kernel.
>
> Kernel version:
>
> joshua@nova:~Ï uname -a
> Linux nova 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.82-1+deb9u3 (2018-03-02)
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
> joshua@nova:~Ï
>

Both (!) of my USB floppy drives work [on 4.16.6].


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~Randy