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I have 2 USB floppy drives, both of which work perfectly with OSX Lion 10.7.3 and both of which are visible under VB/Ports/USB, however when I attached a virtual "floppy controller" under the machines storage settings, I cannot select the physical USB floppy drive whilst disk images work perfectly.

Under "type" the only selectable, and default option is "182078" whatever that is!?

I have ensured that the floppy that I am trying to access is not mounted in OSX i.e. I either eject with finder or unmount with disk utility.

Please don't cross post. Other topic removed.

I have now disabled USB under ports. From Googling, it seems this setting is for allowing the guest to see USB devices which is not what I want i.e. I do not expect PCDOS 7.0 to be able to use a USB device directly.

I expect VB to see the FDD as a storage media and then connect it to the guest via the virtual FDC.

Still no joy though........ and what is device type "182078" under VFDC attributes?

ClemFM wrote:... and what is device type "182078" under VFDC attributes?

It's not 182078 but I82078, the first character is the letter I, not the digit 1. It stands for Intel, and the 82078 is the 82078 64 PIN CHMOS SINGLE-CHIP FLOPPY DISK CONTROLLER that VirtualBox is emulating.

rpmurray wrote:

ClemFM wrote:... and what is device type "182078" under VFDC attributes?

It's not 182078 but I82078, the first character is the letter I, not the digit 1. It stands for Intel, and the 82078 is the 82078 64 PIN CHMOS SINGLE-CHIP FLOPPY DISK CONTROLLER that VirtualBox is emulating.

I was hoping that i82078 was USB related. It appears that VB/i82078 can't see the systems USB FDD at all then whilst the manual clearly states that USB "drives" are selectable.

USB drives are selectable. Your problem is that your guest doesn't support USB. So basically, anything that mentions USB is not relevant to your scenario.

IMHO, if the host can read floppies via the USB port then you should image the floppies you need. Images are better anyway.