5.25" Floppy disk drive not recognized

[Christoph Kukulies]

No.
512 is the default bs anyway and it doesn’t work.
—
Christoph


> Am 14.08.2020 um 21:20 schrieb Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de>:
> 
> On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 12:50:50 +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
>> First problem was to recognize the 5.25“ drive from the BIOS.
>> This MB seems to only support one floppydrive. It comes with an ASUS branded point to point cable (one connector only).
>> 
>> At least I managed that FBSD now recognizes the drive:
>> 
>> fdc0: <floppy drive controller (FDE)> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
>> fd0: <1200-KB 5.25" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
>> 
>> But when I’m trying to
>> d# dd if=/dev/fd0 of=fd_dump 
>> dd: /dev/fd0: Device not configured
>> 0+0 records in
>> 0+0 records out
>> 0 bytes transferred in 0.000252 secs (0 bytes/sec)
>> # 
>> 
>> 
>> Do I have to specify  special blocksize?
> 
> Try bs=512, that is a typical block size for floppy access.
> 
> 

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