How does bash refer to a floppy drive?

I am trying to write a disk image to a floppy drive from bash, but I can't get the image to go to the floppy. It is a USB drive and works fine otherwise.
I thought the floppy was /dev/fd0, but that doesn't work. What is the proper syntax?

hi Dr. Chet,
if the floppy is named and mounted, there should be an entry in /Volumes...
then just 'cp image.iso /Volumes/floppyname'
post back if that didn't help.... cheers

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