Subject: Re: floppy support
To: Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
From: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 10/06/2006 14:03:19
On Feb 26,  5:34pm, Jochen Kunz wrote:
} On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 13:20:07 -0700 jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth) wrote:
} 
} >      Use rfd0a.  Floppy drives are different from hard drives in that
} > the final letter is used to indicated the type of floppy and not a
} > partition.  By using rfd0c you told it that you have a 720KB floppy.
} Ahh, yes, of course. Forgot that detail. (I haven't used floppies for
} some years now...)
} 
} [man fdc]

     Yes, I just realised that there isn't a man page...  Will have to
work on that.

} No luck:
} # dd if=/dev/rfd0c of=/tmp/rfd0a 
                   ^

}-- End of excerpt from Jochen Kunz