Memory Stick Floppy Adapter Under GNU/Linux?

Bob_Robertson writes: "I have a Sony floppy adapter for their memory stick, and of course Sony has no "drivers" to use this rather expensive but nice thing in Linux. Works fine in Win95, but who cares? There should be a way to 'mount' the floppy adapter just like any other device. Searching has turned up no success stories other than the Sony USB adapter under SuSE, any suggestions? " The Sony chewing-gum memory has held on doggedly, and there are even non-Sony makers for it now. What suggestions can anyone offer for taking advantage of it under Free OSes?

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Flashpath for unix

[perlwannabe]

http://www.schou.dk/flashpath/ Unfortunately this has a dead link but perhaps you can learn something from it anyway.

Have you actually TRIED using this?

[Anonymous Coward]

It works perfectly on my machine as a normal floppy disk. Perhaps you should have searched Google if you didn't want to try for yourself?

Re:Have you actually TRIED using this?

[E Zimmer]

I have a Sony VAIO with the memory stick reader working. I don't know about a USB reader, but this is known as a USB-SCSI device try enabling USB if you haven't already and enable Generic SCSI Emulation. If this doesn't work you may be SOL. Good Luck.

PCMCIA Adapter

[OiBoy]

I haven't used the floppy adapter yet, but when using the pcmcia memory stick adapter it just shows up as a PCMCIA IDE device. I mount it with 'mount -t vfat /dev/hde1 /stick" and everything works fine.

I did try Google...

[Bob_Robertson]

Thus my statement that "I did a search, but..."

So, what are your "mount" parameters that work for you? Or do you mean that "mtools" read the memory stick?

Bob-