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Date:      Sat, 11 Mar 1995 20:56:14 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
To:        Michael Caughey <mcaughey@infi.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Floppy Drives
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.950311205110.28084C-100000@mocha.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199503120006.TAA16455@larry.infi.net>

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On Sat, 11 Mar 1995, Michael Caughey wrote:

> How can I access my floppy drive in freeBSD?

You want to become friends with the mount command, and the various 
devices in the /dev directory that can control your floppy drives.  The 
filesystem type for dos is 'msdos'.  Read the mount man page, and 
remember, you have to be su'd to root to get them to work.

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' on my 
system.  I have an empty directory /mnt there just to facilitate 
miscellaneous mounts.  After that command, I can access the floppy by 
using standard Unix commands to the /mnt directory.

Don't forget the umount the drive when you finish!

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