Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 22:40:45 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@kukulies.org> Cc: Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info>, "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org>, User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 5.25" Floppy disk drive not recognized Message-ID: <20200814224045.75a1070e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <86D9EF37-531A-4480-8857-9C495E4BBB8C@kukulies.org> References: <46FFA8F9-90AA-42DE-8E8B-CA4383CA7AC6@kukulies.org> <20200814101021.c71f6c23768a5bef685739fe@sohara.org> <20200814071030.3f319e5a@scorpio.seibercom.net> <76A64DE1-B61B-405E-A623-C886819E1977@kukulies.org> <20200814151509.0feef428f3692a1d9a2bb39a@sohara.org> <CAM8r67A8896GM4fsTe-yQnkmz-MCKS0=fN7BwnGF4iixqA4=NA@mail.gmail.com> <0F38A0D7-FD25-4076-A14C-3B75BAC76244@kukulies.org> <86D9EF37-531A-4480-8857-9C495E4BBB8C@kukulies.org>
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On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 22:28:02 +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > Ah, I see what you mean. :) floppy drive in FreeBSD. > > There is fdc(4) and fdccontrol and I read about devices > (as I recalled myself) named /dev/fdX.NNNN. Those were Linux-specific; /dev/fd0.h1440 was a typical entry for the "A: drive". :-) > Could be kind of tricky to figure that out. ARe these device nodes > to be generated by fdcontrol? No, the existing device node /dev/fd0 can be configured using fdcontrol, especially the -s flag is to be mentioned. It's just important that the setting applies to something the controller and the drive can actually implement (like an FM-encoded disk in a MFM-only capable drive). The EXAMPLES section of "man fdcontrol" has a nice summary. > The once was /dev/MAKEDEV for this. FreeBSD since... I think somewhere in v5... started generating device nodes dynamically, so MAKEDEV is no longer needed. > I’ll be two days off net now. See you on Monday. Have a nice weekend! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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