"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:

| shigeki@mediawars.ne.jp (Shigeki UNO) writes:
| > 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.
| [...]
| > musashi [130] ~ > sudo disklabel -rw /dev/rfd0a floppy3
| > disklabel: Invalid signature in mbr record 0
| > disklabel: unknown disk type: floppy3
|
| The disktab in /etc/ by default doesn't seem to have floppy3 in it any
| more.
|
| I'd just do the disk labeling by hand for now.
|
| Perry

I did it! I edited /etc/disktab like this:

<before>
floppy|3.5in High Density Floppy:\
       :ty=floppy:se#512:nt#2:rm#300:ns#18:nc#80:\
       :pa#2880:oa#0:ba#4096:fa#512:ta=4.2BSD:\
       :pb#2880:ob#0:\
       :pc#2880:oc#0:

<after>
floppy|floppy3|3in|3.5in High Density Floppy:\
        :ty=floppy:se#512:nt#2:rm#300:ns#18:nc#80:\
        :pa#2880:oa#0:ba#4096:fa#512:ta=4.2BSD:\
        :pb#2880:ob#0:\
        :pc#2880:oc#0:

And it worked.

I downloaded etc.tgz of 1.6.2 and read disktab. I've just found it that 2.X doesn't have
enough info in it but 1.6.X has.

I appreciate it. ARIGATOU GOZAIMASU.

Regards,

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Shigeki UNO