Linux device drivers...

[Gerry.Feldman at compaq.com (Jerry Feldman)]

First, the files in the /dev/ directory are usually device special files and 
rarely are there normal files. When you do an ls -l, the first character 
before the permissions says whether it is a character or block device. 
In the following, ptyp0 is a character device with a major number of 7, 
and a minor number of 0. 
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     system     7,      0 Oct 22 14:48 ptyp0
Each driver is identified by a major number, and the device is generally 
the minor number, but that actually depends on the driver. Floppy names 
are normally set up as something like /dev/fd01440. There is a whole 
bunch of them. I don't have a linux system that I can log into from here. 


On 21 Feb 00, at 10:22, Kevin M. Gleason wrote:

> I was playing around on my Linux box and had some questions about files
> in /dev.
> If fd0 is used to define the first 3 1/2" high density floppy what other
> device drivers might I expect to see for the same size drive?
> 
> Or other drivers on my computer (I have used the cdrom is09660).
> 
> Are there drivers for the old 5 1/4" floppy disk drives?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Kevin
> 
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