Re: accessing floppy

[Torsten Bücheler <mac%cs.uni-sb.de@localhost>]

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