Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 18:28:18 +0059 (MET) From: Andreas Schulz <ats@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> To: billlee@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /dev for Mounting Floppy Drive Message-ID: <199503121728.SAA13333@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.950312074213.85088B-100000@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> from "billlee@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca" at Mar 12, 95 07:49:48 am
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> > 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 Only history. I think the /dev/fd1.1440 (/dev/fd1 ) or for your case the /dev/fd0.1440 ( /dev/fd0 ) stems from System V. They try to differentiate between the devices. It may be useful to use these long names, if you want to write to a floppy in another format than the default one. So, if you want to write a 720K floppy in a 1.44Mb drive. Then the name will choose the right format. The /dev/fd0.720 should produce on write a 720Kb floppy and the /dev/fd0.1440 should write a 1.44Mb floppy for a 3.5" drive. For reads it shouldn't matter, the driver should detect it :-). You see the word should :-), i have not tested it yet. ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe
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