USB Storage Devices
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: System Administrator’s Guide for the Linux Operating System
Most floppy disks and solid-state devices come with a virtual file allocation table (VFAT)
file system. You can create ext-2 or other file systems on the device as well. You can
mount them on a convenient mount point, for example:
#
mkdir /mnt/floppy
#
mount /dev/sdg1 /mnt/floppy
USB Floppy Drives
The USB floppy drive appears as follows in
/proc/scsi/scsi
.
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATA Model: ST380013AS Rev: 3.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi4 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATA Model: ST380013AS Rev: 3.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
The system log shows details about the device:
scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: NEC Model: USB UF000x Rev: 1.50
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sdaz: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
sdaz: Write Protect is on
Write
Protect
is
on
indicates that the disk is read-only.
USB Solid-State Devices
The following is an example of the
/proc/scsi/scsi
display for a solid-state device.
Host: scsi5 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: LEXAR Model: JUMPDRIVE SECURE Rev: 3000
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
