fedora core 4: no fd0u1680?
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Fri Sep 29 22:11:52 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 17:24 -0400, fedoralist at subtropolix.org wrote:
> Joe Smith wrote:
> > fedoralist at 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 at apollo ~]# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy/
> [root at 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.
> b
>
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