Re: Floppy type (HD/DD) not always recognized correctly

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%jocelyn.rhein.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 03:46:48PM +0200, Ingolf Koch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> recently I experimented a bit with floppies under NetBSD/
> amiga. I used HD floppies, but every third time or so I
> inserted a floppy, it was incorrectly recognized as DD.
> Removing and inserting the same disk again lead to the
> correct type recognition. Is this a known problem?

A feature, if I understand right, of the hardware (well, and maybe the driver
design...)

You have to put a HD floppy into the drive _before booting_ to make the driver
recognize it is a HD driver.

        -is