Re: accessing floppy

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%beverly.kleinbus.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 04:03:55PM +0000, Gunther Nikl wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 03:25:20PM +0200, Torsten Bücheler wrote:
> > how can I access the floppy and which filesystem must I use?
> 
>   This depends on what you intend to do. The floppy devices are /dev/fd0a
>   and /dev/fd0b. The first is used to access amiga formated disks and the
>   latter for dos formatted disk. Mounting is straightforward as you would
>   do with hd partitions, cdroms or zip disks. Of course, you access the
>   floppy devices with cpio and/or tar directly too.
> 
>   Gunther
> 
>   PS: fd0 refers to the internal disk drive.

Examples:

mount_ados -o ro /dev/fd0a /mnt         # Amiga disk with Amiga filesystem
mount_msdos /dev/fd0b /mnt              # IBM disk with MS-DOS filesystem
mount_ados -o ro /dev/fd0b /mnt         # IBM disk with Amiga filesystem

(You might want the latter to access 1.44 MB floppies originally created on
 a DraCo system.)

Regards,
        -is