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/
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