From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 12 07:02:28 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA17639 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Mar 1995 07:02:28 -0800 Received: from freenet.edmonton.ab.ca (freenet.edmonton.ab.ca [198.161.206.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA17633 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 1995 07:02:25 -0800 Received: by freenet.edmonton.ab.ca (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/FEAC1.002) id AA57295; Sun, 12 Mar 1995 07:49:48 -0700 Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 07:49:48 -0700 (MST) From: billlee@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: /dev for Mounting Floppy Drive In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 11 Mar 1995, Chuck Robey wrote: > My machine has a 3 1/2" drive at the B drive....to mount a 144K floppy in > that drive, I issue the command 'mount -t msdos /dev/fd1.1440 /mnt' .... Question from a FreeBSD/UN*X newbie: What's the difference between the /dev paramter in the mount command above and the /dev I've been using for my 3.5" A drive: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt Many thanks! ------------------------------------------------- Bill Lee E-mail: billlee@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca Edmonton, Alberta, Canada