Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: USB Floppy Disk Driver | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Date | Mon, 14 May 2018 18:06:55 -0700 |
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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:~ϟ 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:~ϟ >
Both (!) of my USB floppy drives work [on 4.16.6].
-- ~Randy
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