/dev/fd0 no medium found and does not exist?

[Adam McCarthy]

Oh and I uninstalled my old Cygwin, which was probably at least a year
and a half old and it believe I broke it in some places, but did a
completely new Cygwin and Cygwin runs much faster and now dd
if=image.dd of=/dev/fd0 works just fine.

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Adam McCarthy
<zeroonetwothree@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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@cygwin.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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