Re: Configuring the floppies

[Jeffrey W Grzanich <grzanich%sover.net@localhost>]

On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Phil Kernick wrote:

> I am running NetBSD 1.2 on my A2500.  It has a real C= high-density floppy
> as DF0: and a low density one as DF1:.
> 
> 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?

 Try putting a high density disk in the drive *before* mounting the drives,
AmigaDOS queries the drive before it determines what kind disk it can 
read/write to.  Don't know if this holds true to the NetBSD side of 
things yet...I'm just getting started with NetBSD-1.2



> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Phil.
> 
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