[net.micro.att] Anyone have floppy manual page

laman@ncr-sd.UUCP (Mike Laman) (01/15/86)

Manual entries like dismount(1M) refer to fp(7), but my manual certainly doesn't
have the fp(7) manual entry.  I wanted to find out what the last digit of the
/dev/fp02? mapped to.  I have never worked with floppy devices, so I thought
I'd ask the net for information.  I have some MS-DOS floppy disks that I
wanted to copy for backups, but no luck.  All information about /dev/fp02? and
/dev/rfp02? is appreciated!  Thanks in advance.

BTW, is everyone missing the fp(7) manual entry for the 7300?  Does anyone
have the page, or is this a (un)known problem.

		Mike Laman
		UUCP: {ucbvax,philabs,sdcsla}!sdcsvax!ncr-sd!laman

dbw@ariel.UUCP (DAVE B. WOOD) (01/17/86)

> ...but my [7300] manual certainly doesn't have the fp(7) manual entry.

Correct me if I'm wrong, and then we'll all know:

The 7300 disks each have three slices defined; hence the
0x1,2,3.  On the floppy, slice 0 is loader, slice 1 is data,
and I think slice 2 is not used.
Same for the HD, except I don't know what's on slice 2.
/dev/rfp... is character special, /dev/fp... is block
special (different device driver entries for the same
device).

Dave Wood (a 7300 user)