Need some help with df and mount on OS X
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| Anyone with a Mac that has a floppy drive on it running OS X? If so, would you mind giving me a hand with some terminal output for df and mount? If you have a floppy, I need some df and mount output without a floppy in the drive, and then with a floppy in the drive. I've only got a Mac Mini PPC at this time which of course has no floppy drive. And I've got info from some x86 Linux boxes also, but just don't have a way to see what a floppy on a Mac shows up as under df and mount. Linux and Darwin output the info a little differently from each other, so I need to know how to parse the info for the floppy on a Mac. If someone wants to help, but doesn't know what df and mount are, open a terminal window and type df highlight the info provided back from that and select copy from the edit menu and paste that into TextEdit, then type mount and select the text it returns, copy and paste into TextEdit. For possible security reasons, you may want to replace any user name info that shows up in the output with x's. Thanks to anyone who's willing to help out, -Garrett |
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| I think you will have problems finding somebody with a suitable machine for your needs: OS X was released LONG after Apple stopped selling machines with Floppy Disk Drives. In fact, OS X runs only on Macs with at least a G3 CPU, and there has never been a G3 Mac with a FDD. From what I have found on the net so far, OS X does not even support Floppy Disk Drives. |
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| FYI: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106234 And on http://www.sonnettech.com/news/macosx_update.html you will find the following statement: "Note: Mac OS X does not support internal floppy drives." I get the feeling that whatever Floppy Disk-related feature you are going to implement, you can just drop it from the OS X version. ;-) |
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| I have a USB floppy drive that I sometimes use on my G4 PowerBook. Would that be of any use to you? |
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| This is totally messed up. Seems the forum belched recently and has been taking posts and replies with it. I replied to this after Agent Smith did, but my reply is now gone. Now knowing that no OS X machine supports an internal floppy drive, I don't have to worry about that and can continue on. Agent Smith, thanks for the offer, but no need to waste any time on this now knowing about the above info. Thanks a bunch everyone, -Garrett |
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