Subject: Using floppy disk on i386
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Shigeki UNO <shigeki@mediawars.ne.jp>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/02/2005 03:09:49
Hello,

I'd like to use floppy disks on NetBSD/i386 to save small sized files such as
dot files and text ones. So I followed instructions of NetBSD guide but it didn't
work. 

 http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-rmmedia.html#using-floppies

What I did is:

musashi [129] ~ > sudo fdformat -f /dev/rfd0a
Ready to format /dev/rfd0a with 80 cylinders, 2 tracks, 18 sectors of 512 bytes
(1440 KB) Yes/no [y]?
VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
VV
musashi [130] ~ > sudo disklabel -rw /dev/rfd0a floppy3
disklabel: Invalid signature in mbr record 0
disklabel: unknown disk type: floppy3

Am I missing something before doing disklabel command?
Could you point me out what is wrong?

musashi [156] ~ > uname -mr
3.99.6 i386

TIA,
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Shigeki UNO