{"id":89,"date":"2007-09-25T02:09:56","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T05:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/?p=89"},"modified":"2018-10-01T06:30:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T13:30:25","slug":"dev-device-names-in-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"\/dev device names in OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I was looking for my floppy drive device to use with dd on my macbook. OS X is based on Darwin which is a BSD port but apple has changed up the \/dev device names from the usual BSD ones. The easy way to find out a \/dev\/devicename entry is to open System Profiler and to find the device listed and click on it. <\/p>\n<p>For example, my usb floppy drive was listed under Hardware > USB > USB Floppy. Once I selected that the information window lists all kinds of details about the device, including the &#8220;BSD name&#8221; which in my case was disk2. So the dev entry for my floppy disk is \/dev\/disk2. It&#8217;s a lot easier than guessing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I was looking for my floppy drive device to use with dd on my macbook. OS X is based on Darwin which is a BSD port but apple has changed up the \/dev device names from the usual BSD ones. The easy way to find out a \/dev\/devicename entry is to open System Profiler &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/?p=89\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\/dev device names in OS X&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}