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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Floppy disks in FreeBSD 1.1.5.1
Message-ID: <CwrHEK.E6B@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 00:01:30 GMT
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(1) There is no man page for the floppy disk driver. There is however
an entry for fd in section 4, which describes the file descriptor
devices, even though the fdformat(1) man page refers to fd(4) meaning
the floppy disk.
(2) Writes to /dev/rfd0 that are not a multiple of 512 bytes produce
an error. This results in "tar zcf /dev/rfd0" failing. This worked
in 1.1R.
-- Richard
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Richard Tobin, HCRC, Edinburgh University R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk
Ooooh! I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an
autonomous collective.