On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 17:24 -0400, fedoralist(a)subtropolix.org wrote:
Joe Smith wrote:
> fedoralist(a)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
?<??(a)???.??? 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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