Subject: Re: Accessing the floppy drive
To: Johnny Lam <jlam@jgrind.org>
From: Leo Weppelman <leo@wau.mis.ah.nl>
List: port-atari
Date: 11/06/2001 14:35:21
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 11:17:23PM -0800, Johnny Lam wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 	From my reading of src/sys/dev/isa/fd.c, it seems that on
> NetBSD/atari, we need to mount different "partitions" of the floppy device
> depending on the density of the floppy disk.  In particular:
> 
> 	360K	--->	mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt
> 	720K	--->	mount -t msdos /dev/fd0b /mnt
> 	1.44M	--->	mount -t msdos /dev/fd0c /mnt
> 
> Is this correct?  Why is the atari density-to-partition mapping different
> from the other NetBSD platforms?

This is correct. It is also in the FAQ:
  http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/atari/faq.html#floppy

It is different from some other, true. But if it is different from all other,
that I don't know. I must have picked up the idea for this floppy sceme
somewhere. But I really can't rememeber where.

Leo.