USB Floppy drive

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USB Floppy drive seems to work quite fine, but there is some difference comparing with tradional Floppy drive. USB Floppy drive is identifying as mass storage like /dev/sdb (not /dev/fd0). If running some dd commands for example, the right path is /dev/sdx , where x=drive´s letter.

A practical example: Slitaz floppy-grub4dos image to the floppy using dd.
1. Find the drive

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sudo apt-get install ufiformat
sudo ufiformat --inquire --verbose

... Floppy drive was /dev/sdb

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list usb fdd devices
disk         generic     
/dev/sdb     /dev/sg2   

2. Image to the floppy

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sudo dd if=floppy-grub4dos of=/dev/sdb

... After the process sudo fdisk -l tells

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Levy /dev/sdb: 1 Mt, 1474560 tavua
1 päätä, 3 sektoria/ura, 960 sylinteriä, yhteensä 2880 sektoria
Yksiköt = 1 * 512 = 512 -tavuiset sektorit
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Levyn tunniste: 0xc28e10c6

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Valittuna on todennäköisesti väärä laite.

    Laite Käynn     Alku          Loppu    Lohkot   Id  Järjestelmä
/dev/sdb1   ?  1516049357  3206558419   845254531+   6  FAT16
/dev/sdb2   ?  1867382898  3147843473   640230288   65  Novell Netware 386
/dev/sdb3   ?           0  1507532799   753766400   20  Tuntematon
/dev/sdb4   ?  4151640124  4151705382       32629+  b4  Tuntematon