Jeff Vian wrote:
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
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???.??? ??cbt.^?f ?>lu.?hu &?tf??4u.?.? _w??p??.??_
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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.
Not true. In fact, Microsoft used to use 1680 density for its install
disks. I've no idea if it was ever used for Macs, though. In any case,
it mounts fine on core 3 with -t vfat.
The example i posted above was to show that the disk was not
automagically detected by udev as 1680. That is what i would expect to
see on my core 3 box if i used /dev/fd0 (because it's the wrong density).
core 3:
[root@poseidon ~]# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0u1680 /media/floppy/
works fine.
core 4:
[root@apollo ~]# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0u1680 /media/floppy/
mount: special device /dev/fd0u1680 does not exist
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