5.25" Floppy

[Daxbert]

have you tried using:

/dev/fd0.1200  

I think 1.2MB is the normal size for a 5.25 dual sided floppy.  

--daxbert


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "northern snowfall" <dbailey27 at ameritech.net>
To: <questions at FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: <hardware at FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 12:26 AM
Subject: 5.25" Floppy 


> Morning, all;
>      I'm trying to get a Mitsumi D509V3 1.2MB 5.25" floppy drive
>  to work on FreeBSD 4.2.6. The operating system reports the drive
>  is available and definitely makes contact with the drive (visual
>  confirmation: LED). The issue is during read/write from the
>  drive. Error message:
>      fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (No status)
>  I have the proper drive type set in the BIOS. FreeBSD seems to
>  agree according to the dmesg:
>      fd0: <1200-KB 5.25" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
>  I've been doing simple read tests using:
>      dd if=/dev/fd0 count=1 bs=512 | hexdump ;
>  Any suggestions?
>  Don
>  
>  
> 
> 
> 
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