USB floppy drive weirdness.

[Luke Yelavich]

Hi all
When attempting to connect my USB floppy drive with a floppy all ready
in it, Ubuntu finds and configures it, but it seems to take a while, and
seems to configure it several times. In my computers window in GNOME, I
get several SCSI devices appearing for the one drive. sda through to sdd
or even sde sometimes.

Dmesg output:
usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using address 5
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
  Vendor: SMSC      Model: USB FDC           Rev: 2.10
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sda: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: unknown partition table
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
  Vendor: SMSC      Model: USB FDC           Rev: 2.10
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sdb: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun1: unknown partition table
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 1
  Vendor: SMSC      Model: USB FDC           Rev: 2.10
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sdc: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdc: Write Protect is off
sdc: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun2: unknown partition table
Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 2
  Vendor: SMSC      Model: USB FDC           Rev: 2.10
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sdd: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdd: Write Protect is off
sdd: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sdd: assuming drive cache: write through
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun3: unknown partition table
Attached scsi removable disk sdd at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 3
  Vendor: SMSC      Model: USB FDC           Rev: 2.10
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sde: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sde: Write Protect is off
sde: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sde: assuming drive cache: write through
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun4: unknown partition table
Attached scsi removable disk sde at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 4
  Vendor: SMSC      Model: USB FDC           Rev: 2.10
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sdf: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdf: Write Protect is off
sdf: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sdf: assuming drive cache: write through
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun5: unknown partition table
Attached scsi removable disk sdf at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 5
  Vendor: SMSC      Model: USB FDC           Rev: 2.10
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sdg: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdg: Write Protect is off
sdg: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sdg: assuming drive cache: write through
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun6: unknown partition table
Attached scsi removable disk sdg at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 6
  Vendor: SMSC      Model: USB FDC           Rev: 2.10
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sdh: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdh: Write Protect is off
sdh: Mode Sense: 00 46 02 00
sdh: assuming drive cache: write through
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun7: unknown partition table
Attached scsi removable disk sdh at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 7
USB Mass Storage device found at 5

It would also be nice to at least have a floppy drive configured to be
used, even if it doesn't have a floppy disk in it.

Let me know if you need any more info.

Luke