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From: "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net>
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Subject: Detect floppy diskette
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Hi,
Using bash, how can I silently check to see whether there is a floppy
diskette in the drive?

When I do:
# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt > dev/null 2>&1
I still get an error msg on screen.



Thanks,
Charles