From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 5 14:51:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2C5116A415 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 14:51:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Ranger@oldpathsbaptistchurch.org) Received: from trinity.vnet-inc.com (matrix.vnet-inc.com [216.129.224.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EF3A43CAE for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 14:50:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Ranger@oldpathsbaptistchurch.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.vnet-inc.com [127.0.0.1]) by trinity.vnet-inc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C87675A45A4D for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 07:51:25 -0700 (MST) Received: from trinity.vnet-inc.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (matrix.vnet-inc.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 85298-07 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 07:51:25 -0700 (MST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (216-129-238-184.vnet-inc.com [216.129.238.184]) by trinity.vnet-inc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DC705A45831 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 07:51:23 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <45758767.8070409@oldpathsbaptistchurch.org> Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:51:19 -0700 From: Old Ranger User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at vnet-inc.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: umass external usb floppy devices X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:51:37 -0000 Greetings to all this morning, After several days of trying, reading, tweaking, and cursing...... I read up on supported umass usb devices supported by FreeBSD 6.1. The only umass usb external floppy drive I see in that list is a "Panasonic" external floppy. I have a TEAC FD-05PUB USB device. I can mount this device using mount_msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt no problem. I can cd to this device, and ls and read the contents thereof. However, whenever I try to write to this device, I get "device busy", among other messages which I cannot reproduce at the moment, because this is a dual boot machine and I'm on the "other" side of the HDD now. Does anyone know if there is a tweak, or a hack to get around this write problem with TEAC umass usb floppy drives? Thanks in advance. -- Rev. Z. Wade Hampton Ranger@oldpathsbaptistchurch.org "Dedicated to those Rangers who laid down their lives; so that lesser men could be free to cry "peace", when there was none." Author unknown