Floppy Drive not seen by Mt. Lion OS

Since I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion (10.8.4), my iTunes turns on and off by itself. Also, floppy drive is no longer recognized by iDVD or iTunes, nor will it recognize setup software disks. I also run Parallels Desktop for MAC - 7. This virtual drive runs Windows XP. The floppy drive works just fine with Windows Media Player. Any idea how to turn on Mt. Lion to see the floppy drilve?

Just connecting a USB floppy drive to Mountain Lion (in my case 10.8.4) will not mount anything to the Desktop -- until you insert a floppy disk. Mine is a SmartDisk VST Floppy Drive Titanium (FDUSB-TM) from the late 1990's. No installable drivers. Just works with OS X usb. They are out of business.

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Click Accessories, and then click Run.
Type regedit, and then click OK.
If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type the password, or click Allow.
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Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
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Bus 007 Device 002: ID 046d:082d Logitech, Inc. HD Pro Webcam C920
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Bus 006 Device 004: ID 0bc2:ab20 Seagate RSS LLC
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 05af:8366 Jing-Mold Enterprise Co., Ltd
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 013 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 010 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 012 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 009 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 011 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
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R00KIE wrote:
Make sure you haven't blacklisted the uas driver. If the uas driver does not work well for you, check here [1] how to disable it for a particular drive.
[1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=183190
Awesome, THANKS!! Yes I got it to work following this and specifically Da_Coynul's post:
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First, create a file named ignore_uas.conf in the /etc/modprobe.d directory containing the following*:
options usb-storage quirks=Vendor_ID:Product_ID:u
*(substitute your actual Vendor_ID and Product_ID obtained from the lsusb -v command).
Next, regenerate your inital ramdisk:
# mkinitcpio -p linux
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Although this is not a solution to broken uas, at least it will let you use your drive as before hmm
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p1428782
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Hello all,
I have been installed Solaris 10 x86 1/06 beta but after installation there is no possible to use floppy drive. I cannot mount it.
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