[aclug-L] Re: accessing the floppy drive from linux

[Jeff <schaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, phrostie wrote:

> on my mandrake it looks like this:
> 
> /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto \
> sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0

Whew! That's a mouthful :)
This says to:
sync) do I/O synchronously (wait for it to finish copying before
      giving you a prompt back -- MSDOS compatibility mode, I'll call 
      it) :)
      The default mode here is 'async'.
user) non-root users can mount it
noauto) "mount all partitions" ("mount -a") will not try to mount it
nosuid) don't let setuid programs set their uid
nodev) do not think anything special about device files on it
unhide) show hidden files (hrm)

You can use any of the above that make sense (for a complete list, see
'man mount').

If you don't put a filesystem type on the line (like above), it'll
try to mount it ext2 ... otherwise you can specify a second line that
says 'msdos' on it, like below, and simply have another mountpoint (so
/dev/fd0 /mnt/dosflop msdos ...
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 ...

and then you can do
mount /mnt/dosflop
or
mount /mnt/floppy
and get the one you want.


> if it does not try changing fd0 to fd1 or something like that.

fd0 would be your first floppy drive (according to the BIOS),
and fd1 the second.

Let us know if you have any other problems or questions!

-jeff
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