Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:43:48 -0800 From: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com> To: "Dr. Lyman Hazelton" <lrh@alum.mit.edu> Cc: tech@freebsdmall.com Subject: Re: New name for Floppy disk devices? Message-ID: <20031217014348.GG22090@freebsdmall.com> In-Reply-To: <200312161312.40701.lrh@alum.mit.edu> References: <200312161312.40701.lrh@alum.mit.edu>
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Have you read the creating and using floppy disks section of the Handbook? The device name is '/dev/fd0'. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/floppies.html Hope that helps. - Murray On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:12:40PM -0700, 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? > > -Lyman
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