External floppy drive. [Solved]

[GuiGuy]

Is it possible to make an MX driver for one of these:-

flopbox.png

?

[Eadwine Rose]

Is there any lsusb output when you connect it?

[j2mcgreg]

It may work OTB. See here:
https://community.clearlinux.org/t/solv ... -etc/905/9

[GuiGuy]

Is there any lsusb output when you connect it?

Yes, this looks like the right line:-

Bus 001 Device 006: ID 057b:0000 Y-E Data, Inc. FlashBuster-U Floppy

But it fails to mount any inserted disk.

failureMessage.png

[GuiGuy]

The thing does work in W7, but not in W10.

Edit:- Lots of stuff about this on the internet....
But I have not found any reports of success on Linux.

Does it need a later kernel than ours?

[rokytnji.1]

Depending on what you want to use for. I keep old Puppy Linux Live cds for floppy drive sessions.

The puppy cd also will mount your internal hard drive if you click the icon.

Edit: where I grab my isos

https://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/
https://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/p ... puppy-4.0/
I'd recommend : version 4 for starters

[Stuart_M]

• You made a post on the "problems with Mx21-2" [sic] thread (Post #13), so I presume that you read my Post #26 https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 78#p694778 where I gave a link to a Debian Wiki page (https://wiki.debian.org/Floppy). Did you try that?

• This https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php ... st10696282 post is from the Ubuntu thread "Mounting Floppy Drive fails with 'can't read superblock'" (April 2011) and gives his solution.
  
  There is another solution at the end of the same thread (Post #6) about using "the udisks command" that solved it for him, but strangely no command was given and the image has long been removed.

• This https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7458304.html link "Having issues getting my USB floppy drive working" (Gentoo forums, December 2013) might have some useful information.

[GuiGuy]

Depending on what you want to use for. I keep old Puppy Linux Live cds for floppy drive sessions.

The puppy cd also will mount your internal hard drive if you click the icon.

I want to read my old floppy disks on MX linux but no success yet.

[GuiGuy]

@Stuart_M
Thanks Stuart, but none of your links seems to help me... maybe I'm just too old and stupid .

The behaviour is the same in both MX19 and MX21.

[bbfuller]

I have an external floppy drive that also identifies itself as:

Bus 002 Device 003: ID 057b:0000 Y-E Data, Inc. FlashBuster-U Floppy

I haven't used it for several years now but I've just tried it on MX21 with both KDE and XFCE.

In both instances, as soon as I plug it in it is recognised by the file manager and I am able to read and write to a disk in it.

Doesn't the message you get in post 4 imply that there is a problem reading the filesystem on the disk. I would assume that it is either a faulty disk or that the drive itself is faulty.

I seem to remember that with floppies compatibility between disks and drives written on different devices could be problematic as the drive mechanism became worn.