I have purchased a Mitsumi USB (external) floppy drive, and, having attached it to my computer, I am trying to find where it is located in /dev. I would like to use the udev system, and the command udevinfo, but it seems I have to specify the location of the floppy drive in /dev first, and I don't know how to do that.
The computer sees the device: paris:/dev# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model: ST3120813AS Rev: 2AAA Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model: ST3120813AS Rev: 2AAA Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: MITSUMI Model: USB FDD 061M Rev: 2.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 I have looked in all the obvious places, like /dev/fd: *****************commands********************** paris:/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/floppy# cd /dev/fd paris:/dev/fd# ls 0 1 2 255 paris:/dev/fd# ls -l total 4 lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jan 16 11:44 0 -> /dev/pts/3 lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jan 16 21:36 1 -> /dev/pts/3 lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jan 16 21:36 2 -> /dev/pts/3 lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jan 16 21:36 255 -> /dev/pts/3 paris:/dev/fd# cd /dev/pts paris:/dev/pts# ls -l total 0 crw--w---- 1 peter tty 136, 0 Jan 16 11:43 0 crw------- 1 peter tty 136, 1 Jan 16 21:32 1 crw------- 1 peter tty 136, 2 Jan 16 21:06 2 crw------- 1 peter tty 136, 3 Jan 16 21:36 3 paris:/dev/pts# superformat /dev/pts/3 Not a floppy drive paris:/dev/pts# ******************end commands******************* Can't find it. So I can't use commands like superformat /dev/??? udevinfo /dev/??? And I can't write a rule for udev to map the device to a convenient place. It seems like I have to find it first! How can I do that? Do I really have to just look around until I find it, or is there some systematic way to find it? Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
