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["Samuel W. Heywood" <sheywood AT shentel.net>]

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 15:18:32 +0000 (UTC), sindi keesan wrote:

> For the 720K drive, mknod fd0u720 b 2 16 works in all four computers.

> For the 360K drive I typed (in /dev) mknod fd1d360 b 2 5

> This works in only one of my 360K floppy drives (the one which is tan
> rather than black, implying it is newer, but we have marked it 360 not
> 1.2M drive).  On the other three, using the same floppy disk:

> end_request:  I/O error, dev 02:01 (floppy), sector 0 (twice)
> mount:  /dev/fd1 is not a valid block device

> Is the d360 supposed to be a 360K or a 1.2M drive?
> We have one other tan one that I can try.

> I also tried making all the other 360K devices (I think it was D and u)
> but that did not help any.

> keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org

I use a 1.2M floppy drive with one of my computers when running Basic 
Linux.  It works just fine for me.  I didn't even have to indicate what 
kind, type, and capacity of floppy drive that it is.

Sam Heywood
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