Re: Configuring the floppies

[mhitch%gemini.oscs.montana.edu@localhost (Michael L. Hitch)]

On Jan 22, 11:30am, Jukka Partanen wrote:
> Phil Kernick writes:
> > 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.

  No, fd0b is used for an MSDOS track format.  The NetBSD floppy driver
will (or is supposed to) automatically detect the density based on what
type of floppy is present.  An empty drive will be reported as low
density.  The drive won't indicate that it is HD unless an HD floppy
is present.

Michael

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