Dear all,
I need to read some legacy floppy disks (3,5") which have been written a long time ago by Windows systems. I have a TEAC USB floppy-disk drive, and I have a test disk that I can read with a floppy disk drive included in a Windows computer. Actually, I want to read it on one of my openSuSE systems.
Unfortunately, the drive does not work. If I plug it into a USB slot, the device notifier pups up, OK telling me that I am not authorized to mount. I repated this as root. Now the device notifier says "Acessing ...", but after some time, again tells "You are not authorized to mount this device".
Command lsblk shows at this point /dev/sdc as type "disk" without a mount point.
Command
takes a long time (several minutes) while the device is working, and after that lsblk shows the mount point. In addition,
shows
Then,
gets the device working, but nothing is shown,
shows only
and
.
I would appreciate any ideas on how to get the floppy disk drive to work and to test further. I am happy to provide any additional information.
Thanks and best regards
Bernd
I need to read some legacy floppy disks (3,5") which have been written a long time ago by Windows systems. I have a TEAC USB floppy-disk drive, and I have a test disk that I can read with a floppy disk drive included in a Windows computer. Actually, I want to read it on one of my openSuSE systems.
Unfortunately, the drive does not work. If I plug it into a USB slot, the device notifier pups up, OK telling me that I am not authorized to mount. I repated this as root. Now the device notifier says "Acessing ...", but after some time, again tells "You are not authorized to mount this device".
Command lsblk shows at this point /dev/sdc as type "disk" without a mount point.
Command
Code:
mount /dev/sdc /mnt/floppyCode:
lsblk -fCode:
# lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT
sda
├─sda1 ext4 e920a247-b5d0-4199-a405-b66d18258c0e 373.2M 16% /boot
└─sda2 crypto_LUKS bc3591c6-6bfc-447d-8ece-adf87c08d6ba
└─cr-auto-1 LVM2_member SDwntq-ohW4-ZpjL-wclp-CeDG-1f8p-Tp5ltx
├─system-root ext4 3ecdd803-a53a-469a-99a0-a8f8ffb68103 26G 28% /
├─system-swap swap e2fc9a10-00a8-481b-b2fc-ba6a7e8d4b09
└─system-home ext4 4b3d9794-d54b-4efa-a557-f5eccd67f797 353.4G 9% /home
sdc 1.2M 13% /mnt/floppy
sr0Code:
ls /mnt/floppyCode:
ls -a /mnt/floppyCode:
.Code:
..I would appreciate any ideas on how to get the floppy disk drive to work and to test further. I am happy to provide any additional information.
Thanks and best regards
Bernd