Subject: Re: Floppy drive detection problem
To: fission <fission@mb.sympatico.ca>
From: David Maxwell <david@fundy.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/17/1999 00:20:10
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 10:16:51PM -0600, fission wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is there any way to tell NetBSD what my floppy drives are (at boot)?
> Any other ideas?

It would probably be worthwhile seeing whether the drive actually works
ok. man fdc, you'll see you can use /dev/fd0b (or fd1b as appropriate)
to force the drive to be treated as a 1.44

try 'mount /dev/fd0b /mnt' with your install floppy and see if the drive
reads the disk without a problem.

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