Re: Configuring the floppies

[Jukka Partanen <jtp%cs.hut.fi@localhost>]

Phil Kernick writes:
> I am running NetBSD 1.2 on my A2500.  It has a real C= high-density floppy
> as DF0: and a low density one as DF1:.
> 
> When NetBSD boots, it claims that both floppies are "9 sector [11 sector]"
> which is correct for the 880k drive, but wrong for the other.
> 
> There doesn't appear to be an fdconfig or similar program to tell it that
> DF0: is a 1760k drive.
> 
> How can I do it?

        Use /dev/[r]fd0b for the HD floppy (0a is for the low density
        mode). At least it works for me. If you have an HD floppy in
        the drive when NetBSD boots, it will report it as 3.5hd.

        jtp

UH-OH!!  I put on ``GREAT HEAD-ON TRAIN COLLISIONS of the 50's''
 by mistake!!!