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From: aryeh@eddie.mit.edu (Aryeh M. Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: 3.5" FD
Keywords: floppy, HW manual section
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.143332.2269@eddie.mit.edu>
Date: 26 Feb 91 14:33:32 GMT
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In article <9ooXX3w161w@nstar.rn.com> tbissett@nstar.rn.com (Travis Bissett) writes:
>But I seem to be missing something such as /dev/fd1135ds9 and 
>/dev/fd1135ds18. I'm trying to beat the tar :-) out of my distribution 

Please see fd(HW), mknod(C), and mkdev(ADM).  Essentially the commands
to create the device nodes are:

	mknod /dev/fd1135ds9 b 2 37
	mknod /dev/fd1135ds18 b 2 61
	mknod /dev/rfd1135ds9 c 2 37
	mknod /dev/rfd1135ds18 c 2 61

The meaning of the minor device numbers is explained in fd(HW).