[CentOS] floppy drives

Mon Apr 8 15:19:16 UTC 2013
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 04/07/2013 07:26 PM, mark wrote:
> On 04/07/13 19:53, John R. Dennison wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 07:35:17PM -0400, mark wrote:
>>>> ls -l /dev/fd?
>>>>
>>>> What do you see?
>>>>
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr  7 15:03 /dev/fd -> /proc/self/fd/
>> Interesting as that doesn't match the pattern /dev/fd?
>>
>>> And, while we're at it, ll of /dev/floppy shows
>>>
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr  7 15:03 /dev/floppy -> fd0
>> fd0 should have been shown by the ls -l /dev/fd? pattern so is that a
>> broken link?
>>
>> "lsmod | grep floppy" - does it show the floppy module loaded?
>>
>> If "ls -l /dev/fd0*" does not show a series of device nodes try:
> It does - /dev/fd0, along with all 14 sizes of floppies, of a patter 
> /dev/fd0u<disk capacity>
> <snip>

I saw in an earlier part of the thread, you were trying to do things to
A: ... A: is a windows device, not a Linux device

Make sure you are trying to do things to /dev/fd0 and not A:

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