screwed?? mounting vaio usb floppy

[rex holmes]

I've got an older vaio PCG-N505VE & a new PCG-SR17K, with RedHat 7.1 installed on both, identical configuration. Apparently, the USB floppy is seen as a SCSI device, so to recognize it, I had to change /etc/fstab as follows:
was:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
is:
/dev/sda /mnt/floppy auto auto,user 0 0

This works perfectly on the older 505VE, but on the newer SR17K, I get the message "/dev/sda: unknown device".

I've searched on everything I can think of, but either my keywords are too specific and I get nothing, or my keywords are too broad and I get a lot of noise. As a newbie, I'm not really sure what the technical term in linux is for this. How do I go about figuring out what device the computer thinks this is??

Corollary problem (both computers): since the floppy isn't "/dev/fd0", all of the tiny linuxes (ie fits on a floppy), like tomsrtbt, fail to load, with a "LIL" message (for example) - assumably because they are looking for fd0 not sda. Any advice??

Thanks!

rex

[rex holmes]

Oh yeah, I meant to say, I have looked through linux-laptop.net, for the models I know to be similar - unfortunately, the newer models don't ship with a floppy, so nobody there has attempted this. (Though there may be a similar model I am not familar with, but I'm hesitant to read through 150 pages without a guarantee that what I'm looking for would even be there.)

Rex

[SiCKB0Y]

Just a quick search on google.com/linux

dont know if this will help you but this model seems similar
http://thomas.sarlandie.free.fr/LinuxSR1K.html

[rex holmes]

The article says nothing about mounting a floppy... Or am I missing something? Al it says is that it ships without a floppy.

Rex