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: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20130408/aa241a13/attachment-0005.sig>