From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 17 03:15:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7139516A4CF for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 03:15:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2498B43DA7 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 03:11:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from malcolm.kay@internode.on.net) Received: from beta.home (ppp109-47.lns1.adl1.internode.on.net [150.101.109.47])hBHB9KcK015203; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 21:39:21 +1030 (CST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Malcolm Kay Organization: At home To: lrh@alum.mit.edu, tech@freebsdmall.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 21:39:19 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <200312161312.40701.lrh@alum.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200312161312.40701.lrh@alum.mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200312172139.19783.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Subject: Re: New name for Floppy disk devices? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:15:01 -0000 On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 06:42, Dr. Lyman Hazelton wrote: > OK, so sometimes serial devices that one would expect to have names in > /dev like sio0 or sio1 are now called cuaa0 or cuaa1 (for reasons > beyond my understanding). Now I can see my floppy disk in the dmesg > output, but there doesn't appear to be an fdc0 in /dev. Did floppy > disk devices get renamed, too, or is it hiding somewhere else, or did > it, for some unknown reason, just vanish? I'm trying to create a > floppy disk boot pair, and can't write to a device I can't find. > Help? > I have been using FreeBSD since version 2.0.5 and during that time=20 the serial callin ports have always been named ttyd?, callout ports cuaa? and floppy drives fd0, fd1. The names are not new or changed. I guess you could have created your own device files or renamed them choo= sing=20 any name you want; but most people find it more convenient to stay with t= he=20 defaults as other applications won't find them. I think you may be confused with the serial driver names, sio? and the fl= oppy disk controller name fdc0; which as far as I can remember always have bee= n and=20 still are. Malcolm Kay=20