On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Mikkel <mikkel(a)infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>
> I don't know whether at some point in the last couple of years the
> commonly accepted naming convention for floppy device nodes has changed,
> or if this is a Fedora-ism. If the standard naming convention has
> changed, then I'll update floppy as soon as I see where the new naming
> convention is documented. But, as of now, this is what the fd man page
> says the naming convention should be, and that's what MAKEDEV creates.
>
All I can tell you is that in the /Documentation/devices.txt file in
the kernel source/documentation, it does not list any floppy devices
using a capital H. There is a lower case h, but that is used in
5-1/4" floppies.
...
40 = /dev/fd?h1440 5.25" 1440K in a 1200K drive(1)
...
28 = /dev/fd?u1440 3.5" 1440K High Density(1)
...
(1) Autodetectable format
______
My CentOS has a /dev/fd0u1440. Earlier I said I had a /dev/fd0H1440, but
that was not correct.
~af