Subject: Re: accessing floppy
To: port-amiga@NetBSD.ORG <port-amiga@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Torsten =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=FCcheler?= <mac@cs.uni-sb.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 08/21/2000 09:56:06
Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
>
> 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.)
Thank you for fast answering.
I made the mistake not to specify the filesystem type, esp. mount_msdos.
On linux system any user can mount/umount cdrom or floppies, when in
fstab the option "user" is set. Is there something like this on NetBSD?
Torsten