On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 17:24 -0400, fedoralist@subtropolix.org wrote:
Joe Smith wrote:
fedoralist@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.
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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.
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