[CLOSED] USB Floppy Drive on Linux Mint 17.3

[eersoy93]

Hi! I have s-link FD-05PUB USB floppy drive. When I plug this, it appears on Thunar with floppy drive icon. When I click the icon, I ger the erorr message:

Error mounting /dev/sdb at /media/eersoy93/disk: Command-line `mount -t "auto" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/sdb" "/media/eersoy93/disk"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: /dev/sdb is not a valid block device
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Thanks for replies and answers.

[LinuxJim]

You did have an actual floppy disk in the drive, didn't you?

[Cosmo.]

Write instead of /dev/sdb: /dev/sdb1

[eersoy93]

You did have an actual floppy disk in the drive, didn't you?

Yes, I have many floppy disk.

Write instead of /dev/sdb: /dev/sdb1

It isn't work. There isn't sdb1 device in /dev/

[Cosmo.]

What does this command in the terminal show?

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sudo lsblk -f

[LinuxJim]

You may need to install the fdutils package. It includes a script to create the floppy device in /dev, and a utility to automount floppies on insertion.

The floppy drive is /dev/fd[x], not /dev/sd[x]. It's not a standard block device, and there is no partition table.

[kukamuumuka]

viewtopic.php?f=42&t=198745

1. Find the drive

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

... Floppy drive was /dev/sdb

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

[eersoy93]

My USB floppy drive isn't working correctly anyway, so this topic can be closed.