5.3-REL-p5: ----------- I am having problems using a 360k floppy in a 1.2m drive; this should work. fdcontrol reports different things with or without -Fv: --- % fdcontrol -Fv /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0: 360 KB media type Format: 9,512,0xff,0x23,40,300,2,0x50,1,0,+mfm,+2step Sector size: 512 Sectors/track: 9 Heads/cylinder: 2 Cylinders/disk: 40 Transfer rate: 300 kbps Sector gap: 35 Format gap: 80 Interleave: 1 Side offset: 0 Flags <MFM,2STEP> ------------- correctly identifying the media and need for 2step. However, mounting the disk from /dev/fd0 results in hard errors on all but the root directory, indicating that 2step isn't being used. This is true with or without device flag 0x10. and --- % fdcontrol /dev/fd0 1.2M % fdcontrol -v /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0: 1.2M drive (5.25" high-density) ------------ which is wrong (it identifies the drive right but not the media; maybe this is what is supposed to happen but...) Explicitly giving the fmtstr to fdcontrol has no effect on either a current or subsequent mount. Nor does fdcontrol -f 360. The fdc man page gives no hint as to what the minor number for each of the different format subdevices should be. -- PeteReceived on Tue Jan 25 2005 - 19:19:43 UTC
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