On Tuesday 01 November 2005 18:09, Shigeki UNO wrote:
> 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]?
> VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
>VVVV
> VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
>VVVV VV
> musashi [130] ~ > sudo disklabel -rw /dev/rfd0a floppy3
> disklabel: Invalid signature in mbr record 0
> disklabel: unknown disk type: floppy3

Try using /dev/rfd0d instead. d is the partition which represents the whole 
floppy.

Mark

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