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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!mel.dit.csiro.au!etrog.citri.edu.au!vet.catt.citri.edu.au!acas From: acas@vet.catt.citri.edu.au (Andrew Cassin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: mtools: mapping of floppy devices Date: 19 Nov 1995 02:00:04 GMT Organization: Collaborative Information Technology Research Institute Lines: 24 Message-ID: <48m334$8ol@etrog.citri.edu.au> References: <5xtE1bYJo$B@rimki.toppoint.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: vet.catt.citri.edu.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Christoph Rimek (chrimek@rimki.toppoint.de) wrote: : One short question: the mtools (binary) package works with floppy : devices fd0.1440, fd0.1200, fd1.1440 and fd1.1200 . : In /dev I find the devices fd[01][abcdefgh]. I compiled mtools from source and setup devices.c to contain the appropriate settings for my home system. You can link them if you want (which is probably what the person who made the binary package intended you to do, but I am not sure). You might want to recompile mtools from source if you need to have device hooks for 360kb/720kb disks... (and the binary package doesnt provide them). See below... : So what is what? I can link fd0.1440 to any of the existing fd0? : devices, but which link is the "correct" one? Is there any table : that describes the floppy formats and their mapping to the BSD-devices? 'man 4 floppy' will give you all the information you need for netbsd 1.0 (which I presume is what you are using?) Hope this helps, ACAS