Okay, this is starting to weird me out.  I disabled the 1.2MB drive and
left the 1.44 MB drive alone; I tried using /dev/fd0b, but the 1.2MB drive
started seeking/spinning/etc.

Does the placement of the floppy drives along the cable make a difference
at all?  I ask this because I think the 1.4MB drive is actually second on
the chain, but is/was defined as the first floppy when I got the computer.

--fission

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, David Maxwell wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 10:16:51PM -0600, fission wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Is there any way to tell NetBSD what my floppy drives are (at boot)?
> > Any other ideas?
> 
> It would probably be worthwhile seeing whether the drive actually works
> ok. man fdc, you'll see you can use /dev/fd0b (or fd1b as appropriate)
> to force the drive to be treated as a 1.44
> 
> try 'mount /dev/fd0b /mnt' with your install floppy and see if the drive
> reads the disk without a problem.
> 
> -- 
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