USB Floppy in UBUNTU

[CJ]

alex wrote:
> CJ wrote:
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>> alex wrote:
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>>> Is anybody using an external USB floppy drive in UBUNTU?  Any difficulties?
>>> Any advice?
>>>
>>> alex
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>> ive used mine, no problems. why do you ask?
>> --cj
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> A few days  after I finished making and testing a couple of grub 
> floppies the drive started making clicking and clacking noises
> and refusing to even look at a floppy, 
Its normal for an old floppy drive to make loud noises when reading a 
floppy. but if the noises are louder then usual, it is best to replace 
the drive.

> I decided to go a different route 
> and use an external drive.  The old one was about 11 years old.. I  
> hoped I can run the grub floppies on an external dirive.  Not that I 
> need to...everything boots normally ...it's just that I'd like to have 
> it available.  Belt and suspenders you ,know.
> Incidently, my original message was double posted because after I posted 
> the original, I kept checking the list for a response and my own 
> posting.  Neither was there for a few hours so I posted again..   This 
> time both postings showed up immediately. Take a look at the time stamp 
> on both postings..
>
> Thanks for the info
>
> alex
> .
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>   
Furthermore, if you want to boot from your external floppy, you may want 
to make sure that it supports booting from usb (as external floppy 
drives are usb now).

--cj