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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

I read about the minor numbers for double density 360K drives 
(/dev/fd0d360 and /dev/fd1d360) and the first is 2,5 so I assumed the 
second is 2,6 (based on the pattern of /dev/fd1* being one greater than 
/dev/fd0*).  mknod fd0d360 c 2 5 and mknod fd1d360 c 2 6 should have 
worked.  I did something similar to make missing SB16 devices with mknod.

But I still cannot mount my 360K floppy drive.  not a valid block device.

What do I try next?  I notice that BL2 comes with support for a 720K 
floppy drive as fd0 (a:) but not as fd1 (b:).  And no support for anything 
other than 722 (double density 3.5"?), h1200 (high density 5.25"?), h1440 
(high density 3.5"?), u1440 (what is this?), and u1722 (?).

Various websites assumed you had the dev already in /dev.  We seem to have 
a large number of sd's (scsi drives?)  listed tho BL kernel does not have 
scsi support.  I would appreciate support in any future BLs for 360K 
floppy drives as fd0 and fd1.  What is an ed?  A vcs?

I am going back to DOS to read my 360K disk.  The problem did not arise 
until now because I only write to these disks with WP51/DOS.

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