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From: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com>
To: "Dr. Lyman Hazelton" <lrh@alum.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: New name for Floppy disk devices?
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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