[CentOS] floppy drives

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On 04/08/13 04:43, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
> Le 08/04/2013 02:23, mark a écrit :
>> 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?
>>>
>>> fd0 should have been shown by the ls -l /dev/fd? pattern so is that a
>>> broken link?
>>>
>   > Ok, ll /dev/fd - which is a directory - shows it pointing to
>   > /proc/self/fd/. Under tghat is 0-3, where 0-2 are links to /dev/pts/0,
>   > *all* the same. 3 is a link to /proc/5038/fd/, which does not exist.
>
> you were asked to type
> ls -l /dev/fd?
> the question mark is part of what you have to type...
>
Perhaps you didn't understand what I wrote in the paragraph that you cut 
out.
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 >> 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>
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Now, if that's not clear enough for you, let me rephrase: /dev/fd0 
exists, as does the related ones, as far as I know (note that ll for me 
is aliased to "ls -laF").

brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2,   0 Apr  7 15:03 /dev/fd0
brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2,  84 Apr  7 15:03 /dev/fd0u1040
brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2,  88 Apr  7 15:03 /dev/fd0u1120
brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2,  28 Apr  7 15:03 /dev/fd0u1440
brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2,  44 Apr  7 15:03 /dev/fd0u1680
brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2,  60 Apr  7 15:03 /dev/fd0u1722
brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2,  76 Apr  7 15:03 /dev/fd0u1743
brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2,  96 Apr  7 15:03 /dev/fd0u1760
brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2, 116 Apr  7 15:03 /dev/fd0u1840
brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2, 100 Apr  7 15:03 /dev/fd0u1920
brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2,  12 Apr  7 15:03 /dev/fd0u360
brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2,  16 Apr  7 15:03 /dev/fd0u720
brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2, 120 Apr  7 15:03 /dev/fd0u800
brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2,  52 Apr  7 15:03 /dev/fd0u820
brw-rw---- 1 mark floppy 2,  68 Apr  7 15:03 /dev/fd0u830

Is that clear enough?

	mark