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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI floppies/HD on FreeBSD?
Date: 17 Apr 1996 22:02:27 GMT
Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden
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Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes:
>Mike Holling wrote:
>] Why can't I read the other floppy on the
>] FreeBSD system? If it's just tarred straight to floppy why do the
>] instructions say to use /dev/fd0a instead of /dev/fd0?
>
>fd0a skips the area normally reserved for the disklabel.
>
>fd0 does not.
That's wrong.
By now, /dev/rfd0.${density} are the prefered floppy devices.
/dev/rfd0[a-h] are identical among itself, but different from the
rfd0.${density} nodes in that they always use the `default' density,
i.e. the density as obtained by the CMOS drive type.
Thou shalst never use block devices for things like tar, in particular
not when writing to them. Always use unbuffered devices.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)