On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 17:24 -0400, fedoralist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Joe Smith wrote: > > fedoralist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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. > b >
