mtools: drive letters
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1 2.2 Drive letters
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1 The meaning of the drive letters depends on the target architectures.
1 However, on most target architectures, drive A is the first floppy
1 drive, drive B is the second floppy drive (if available), drive J is a
1 Jaz drive (if available), and drive Z is a Zip drive (if available). On
1 those systems where the device name is derived from the SCSI id, the Jaz
1 drive is assumed to be at SCSI target 4, and the Zip at SCSI target 5
1 (factory default settings). On Linux, both drives are assumed to be the
1 second drive on the SCSI bus (/dev/sdb). The default settings can be
1 changes using a configuration file (⇒Configuration).
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1 The drive letter : (colon) has a special meaning. It is used to
1 access image files which are directly specified on the command line
1 using the `-i' options.
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1 Example:
1 mcopy -i my-image-file.bin ::file1 ::file2 .
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1 This copies `file1' and `file2' from the image file
1 (`my-image-file.bin') to the `/tmp' directory.
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1 You can also supply an offset within the image file by including
1 `@@'OFFSET into the file name.
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1 Example:
1 mcopy -i my-image-file.bin@@1M ::file1 ::file2 .
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1 This looks for the image at the offset of 1M in the file, rather than
1 at its beginning.
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