From: "Eric - A" > I have a Mitsumi 1.44 USB Floppy drive I'd like to have plug-n-play USB Mass Storage devices *are* plug-n-play; they don't require setting jumpers or configuring IRQs or loading firmware. :-P > currently can only access it by using (~# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb > /media/floppy)... If you want the device to automount, this is not an insanely great idea for floppy disks, since they almost always have a manual eject button and you can eject the disk while it's still being written to or before all writes have completed. You want an automounter of some type. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount/USB looks like a great place to start looking (google://"ubuntu automount"). (Automounting of removable media is, IMHO, a horrible idea, but I've seen things trying to automount a damaged disk, failing miserably, and getting stuck in state D and dragging the rest of the system down with it.) > USB flash drives are easier, but my mother's pc doesn't have usb > capability. Yikes. Sneakernetting things is so less-than-useful now that everything has some sort of networking. But if it's so old that it doesn't have USB ports, maybe the computer archaeology people would be interested? :-) -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss