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From: "Adam McCarthy" <zeroonetwothree AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: /dev/fd0 no medium found and does not exist?
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Well, I had to do dd if=floppyimage of=/dev/fd0 but other than that, I
don't need /dev/fd0.

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Corinna Vinschen
<corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> On May  6 21:12, Adam McCarthy wrote:
>  > \\.\a: on /dev/fd0 type system (binmode)
>
>  This sort of device mount is deprecated for many years. Read
>  http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#id319619
>
>  OTOH, what are you trying to do?  /dev/fd0 is only for raw device
>  access.  If you just want to copy files to or from the drive, the path
>  to your drive is available as /cygdrive/<DRIVELETTER>, as in your
>  mount table:
>
>
>  > d: on /cygdrive/d type system (binmode,noumount)
>  > m: on /cygdrive/m type system (binmode,noumount)
>  > y: on /cygdrive/y type system (binmode,noumount)
>  > z: on /cygdrive/z type system (binmode,noumount)
>
>
>  Corinna
>
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