Re: fedora core 4: no fd0u1680?

[Jeff Vian <jvian10 charter net>]

On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 17:24 -0400, fedoralist subtropolix org wrote:
> Joe Smith wrote:
> > fedoralist subtropolix org wrote:
> > 
> >> I've been using core 4 for quite some time now and this is the first 
> >> time i've had to think about device nodes. I'd like to mount a floppy 
> >> that's formatted to 1680 density but can't figure out how the device 
> >> nodes work. ...
> > 
> > 
> > I hate to ask, but did you try it? The fd0...fdn devices are supposed to 
> > auto-detect the actual capacity and density of the disk in the drive.
> 
> Yup. After reading the udev stuff.
> 
> [root apollo ~]# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy/
> [root apollo ~]# ls /media/floppy/
> ?.?           8v??.??       fp??????.?1?  ??syslin.ux   ???.u??
> ????????.???  }???.?b?      f?>?tf??.t??  ????????.?t?  ???}????.u}?
> ?.??>         ??b?6?t?.???  f!?txf?.?     ???????.t?=   ???????u
> ?<?? ??? ???  b??????u.???  ???h.???      ?????!?t.?aq  u????u?.???
> ???.???       ??cbt.^?f     ?>lu.?hu      &?tf??4u.?.?  _w??p??.??_
> ??.???        dlinux s.ys?  pamsu7f?.>du   ?t??< v.?n?
> 0uf???8u.f)?  f??bss.???    p??s??.???    t??x?.??x
> 
The 1680 density is NOT a dos/vfat format.  IIRC that is a MAC format
and needs to be mounted as such for proper access.



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