FL

Section: Devices and Network Interfaces (4)
Updated: vax
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BSD 4  

NAME

fl - console floppy interface  

DESCRIPTION

This is a simple interface to the DEC RX01 floppy disk unit, which is part of the console LSI-11 subsystem for VAX-11/780 s Access is given to the entire floppy consisting of 77 tracks of 26 sectors of 128 bytes.

All I/O is raw; the seek addresses in raw transfers should be a multiple of 128 bytes and a multiple of 128 bytes should be transferred, as in other ``raw'' disk interfaces.  

FILES

/dev/floppy

 

DIAGNOSTICS

None.  

SEE ALSO

arff(8)  

HISTORY

The driver appeared in BSD 4.0  

BUGS

Multiple console floppies are not supported.

If a write is given with a count not a multiple of 128 bytes then the trailing portion of the last sector will be zeroed.


 

Index

NAME
DESCRIPTION
FILES
DIAGNOSTICS
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
BUGS

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