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/dev/fd0H1920 problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Julien Maillard)
Fri Nov 15 18:39:58 1996
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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 18:06:46 -0500
From: Julien Maillard <maillard@tulipe.val.org>
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I have the following:
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[root@tulipe yard]# ls -l /dev/fd0H*
brw-r--r-- 1 root disk 2, 28 Dec 31 1979 /dev/fd0H1440
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 124 Nov 15 00:16 /dev/fd0H1600
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 44 Nov 15 00:16 /dev/fd0H1680
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 96 Nov 15 00:16 /dev/fd0H1760
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 116 Nov 15 00:16 /dev/fd0H1840
brw-r----- 1 root disk 2, 100 Nov 15 00:16 /dev/fd0H1920
brw-r--r-- 1 root disk 2, 12 Dec 31 1979 /dev/fd0H360
brw-r--r-- 1 root disk 2, 16 Dec 31 1979 /dev/fd0H720
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i can do 'fdformat /dev/fd0H1600' but /dev/fd0H1920 gives:
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[root@tulipe yard]# fdformat /dev/fd0H1920
Double-sided, 80 tracks, 24 sec/track. Total capacity 1920 kB.
Formatting ...
ioctl(FDFMTTRK): Invalid argument
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from floppy.c:
{ 3840,24,2,80,0,0x1C,0x20,0xCF,0x00,"H1920" }, /* 25 1.92MB 3.5" */
so i used 'mknod -m 640 fd0H1920 b 2 100'
did i do something wrong? is my floppy drive just not supporting this higher
density?
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Julien Maillard maillard@vt.edu
Virginia Tech
tel: (540) 231 4285, fax: (540) 231 8836
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