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


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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