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Date:      Sun, 12 Mar 1995 07:49:48 -0700 (MST)
From:      billlee@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
To:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   /dev for Mounting Floppy Drive
Message-ID:  <Pine.A32.3.91.950312074213.85088B-100000@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950311205110.28084C-100000@mocha.eng.umd.edu>

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On Sat, 11 Mar 1995, Chuck Robey wrote:

> My machine has a 3 1/2" drive at the B drive....to mount a 144K floppy in 
> that drive, I issue the command 'mount -t msdos /dev/fd1.1440 /mnt' .... 

Question from a FreeBSD/UN*X newbie:  What's the difference between the
/dev paramter in the mount command above and the /dev I've been using for
my 3.5" A drive: 
   mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt

Many thanks!
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Bill Lee   E-mail: billlee@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
           Edmonton, Alberta, Canada




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