24.5 Floppy Disks

The floppy disk device (i.e., the code that knows how to deal with the floppy disk drive) is usually /dev/fd0. Under MS/Windows this would be referred to as drive a:.

In this chapter we cover topics relating to using floppy disks on a GNU/Linux system.



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