asv@gaboon.UUCP (Stan Voket) (11/15/89)
I'm sure someone posted this before but:
I'd like to add a 3.5" floppy drive to my 386/ix system as fd1. Would
someone please mail me the mknod command lines to make both the 720 and
1.44 meg devices please.
Thanks,
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+----------------------------------------------------------------------+cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (11/15/89)
In article <4436@gaboon.UUCP>, asv@gaboon.UUCP (Stan Voket) writes: > I'd like to add a 3.5" floppy drive to my 386/ix system as fd1. Would > someone please mail me the mknod command lines to make both the 720 and > 1.44 meg devices please. This kind of info is well documented under fd(7) in the manual. PS. You should already have the devices in /dev/dsk and /dev/rdsk. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Conor P. Cahill uunet!virtech!cpcahil 703-430-9247 ! | Virtual Technologies Inc., P. O. Box 876, Sterling, VA 22170 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
rick@pcrat.uucp (Rick Richardson) (11/16/89)
In article <1989Nov15.150751.4003@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes: >In article <4436@gaboon.UUCP>, asv@gaboon.UUCP (Stan Voket) writes: >> I'd like to add a 3.5" floppy drive to my 386/ix system as fd1. Would >> someone please mail me the mknod command lines to make both the 720 and >> 1.44 meg devices please. >This kind of info is well documented under fd(7) in the manual. >PS. You should already have the devices in /dev/dsk and /dev/rdsk. I went thru this myself a couple of months ago. fd(7) doesn't say word one about what minor numbers are needed for the floppies, but there is a table of minor numbers on page 104 of the 386/ix Maintenance Procedures manual. Not all of the device nodes were present on my system (was at 2.0.1 at the time). I couldn't find any better info in the 2.0.2 release notes when they came. I pieced the following table together from the info in the maintenance manual and the floppy header file. I would love to have a complete table, though. And also, somebody please tell me why the SA scripts call the 3.5 inch floppy "f05qt" -- where did the "5" come from? These names are totally bizarre, I made my own names that I can remember: /dev/fd0, /dev/fh0 for DS/DD and DS/HD. 7,6,5,4 3 2,1 0 +-----------------------+-------+-----------+------+ | FORMAT | SIDES | PARTITION | UNIT | +-----------------------+-------+-----------+------+ FORMAT 0 0 High Density, 15 sectors, 5.25" 16 1 Double Density, 9 sectors, 5.25" 32 2 Double Density, 8 sectors, 5.25" 48 3 Single Density, 8 sectors, 5.25" 4 ***unknown*** 80 5 High Density, 18 sectors, 3.5" (1.44MB) 96 6 Quad Density, 3.5" (720KB) 7-15 ***unknown*** SIDES 0 0 Two 8 1 One PARTITION 0 0 Whole 2 1 First Cylinder only 4 2 Except First Cylinder UNIT 0 0 Drive 0 1 1 Drive 1 -Rick -- Rick Richardson | Looking for FAX software for UNIX/386 ?????? mention PC Research,Inc.| WE'RE SHIPPING your uunet!pcrat!rick| Ask about FaxiX - UNIX Facsimile System (tm) FAX # (201) 389-8963 | Or JetRoff - troff postprocessor for the HP {Laser,Desk}Jet
cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (11/16/89)
In article <1989Nov16.043442.8926@pcrat.uucp>, rick@pcrat.uucp (Rick Richardson) writes: > And also, somebody please tell me why the SA > scripts call the 3.5 inch floppy "f05qt" -- where did the "5" > come from? These names are totally bizarre, I made my own names The device f05qt is a 3b2 5 1/4" 720K diskette. (Sysadmin guide pg 4-15). -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Conor P. Cahill uunet!virtech!cpcahil 703-430-9247 ! | Virtual Technologies Inc., P. O. Box 876, Sterling, VA 22170 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+