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Date:	Fri, 1 Mar 2002 15:39:52 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To:	Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour AT redhat DOT com>
Cc:	ecos <ecos-discuss AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>, cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com,
	max rtos <maxrtos AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject:	Re: [ECOS] copy redboot to floppy on cgywin
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	ecos <ecos-discuss AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>, cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com,
	max rtos <maxrtos AT yahoo DOT com>
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On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 08:19:11PM +0000, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
>max rtos wrote:
>> 4)in Cygwin
>> mount -f -b //./a: /dev/fd0
>> dd conv=sync if=install/bin/redboot.bin of=/dev/fd0
>> then I got
>> /dev/fd0: can not find the file or directory
>> What do I need to check????
>
>Erk. Perhaps this went away in cygwin 1.3.3 as well and I never noticed!
>
>I'm CC'ing this to the cygwin list for an answer...
>
>Cygwin dudes, how do you now get direct access to a floppy disk, i.e.
>sector by sector, not the logical drive?

It went away in 1.3.4, actually.  This should explain how things work now:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2001/msg00136.html

cgf

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