makefloppies
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NAME
MAKEFLOPPIES - Creates the default floppy device nodes.
SYNOPSIS
MAKEFLOPPIES [-t] [-l] [-v] [-n] [drives]
DESCRIPTION
The MAKEFLOPPIES shell script creates the new floppy block
device files. It uses the floppycontrol program to trans-
late the minor device numbers into meaningful names. It
also uses these names to decide whether to create a given
block device file or not, depending on the type of the
physical drive (for instance, for a 3 1/2 drive, the for-
mats corresponding to a 5 1/4 drive are not created).
If you have more than two floppy drives, you need to tell
the kernel the CMOS types of those additional drives using
the floppy=drive,type,CMOS lilo option.
If the drives parameter is given, only the device nodes
for the listed drives are made. By default, all eight
drives are tried.
MAKEFLOPPIES does not work if you redefine your default
formats.
CAUTION: MAKEFLOPPIES removes already existing floppy de-
vice nodes.
OPTIONS
-t Name devices for drive type, not floppy type (e.g.
fd0H720)
-l Local. Creates device nodes in the local directory,
not /dev
-v Verbose
-n Dry run. (just report what would be done, do not do
anything)
BUGS
The Makefloppies script does not work on redefined default
formats, because it is impossible to give new names to
these formats. In that case, you need to create the addi-
tional devices manually.
FILES
/dev/fd* - Floppy devices
AUTHOR
Alain Knaff, Alain.Knaff@inrialpes.fr
SEE ALSO
superformat(1), rawcmd(1), floppycontrol(1), mtools(1),
setfdprm(8)
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