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USB Drive as Floppy

May 24th, 2008 · No Comments

http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=623 asks Hoosgot,

Dear lazyweb, I have a 4 GB Cruzer Micro USB Drive. When mounted there’s a /dev/sr1 device which is pretending to be a CD-ROM, and a normal sdc1 device that is a VFAT/WIN95 partition with some files on. I deleted everything on there, and then copied a flash image for my BIOS to it. When I boot into my BIOS (GigaByte board), there is an option to go straight into the flasher utility. The flasher utility can save and load bios from floppies. Floppy A is a real floppy, Floppy B is I assume the USB one, and is only present when I insert my Cruzer USB stick. But the flasher utility doesn’t see my BIOS file, even though it’s

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