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- Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!vancleef
- From: vancleef@netcom.com (Henry van Cleef)
- Subject: Re: 3.5" 1.4M floppy
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.195040.11415@netcom.com>
- Keywords: 286 fd 3.5" driver
- Organization: Netcom--posted from Andover, Mass.
- References: <1992Dec31.174906.20538@seila.uucp> <1993Jan4.185802.4859@seila.uucp>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 19:50:40 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- In article <1993Jan4.185802.4859@seila.uucp> don@seila.UUCP (Don Kossman) writes:
- >i have xenix286 2.2.1 running on a 386 PC and have added a 3.5" floppy drive.
- >this works fine as a 1.4Mb drive under DOS, but i can't access
- >it under xenix- there don't seem to be any standard xenix drivers
- >for this device with my (yes it's old but it works fine with 1Mb of RAM)
- >xenix OS.
- >
- >based on recent postings on a similar subject, i tried using mknod
- >to create a driver with major/minor device numbers 2/64, (actually,
- >2/65 cuz this is drive 1, not drive 0) and although mknod didn't
- >complain, i can't access the drive.
- >
- The nodes on my 2.2.3 Xenix 286 for fd135 floppies are:
- 2, 60 for (r)fd0135ds18
- 2, 36 for (r)fd0135ds9
-
- Drive 1 are one higher. If you kernel supports these, these are the
- minor numbers to use.
- --
- Hank van Cleef vancleef@netcom.com vancleef@tmn.com Andover, Mass.
- Unix systems consultant---kernel, device drivers, networking, X11
- SysV, BSD, Sun, Ultrix, AIX, SCO. Porting a specialty.
- The Union Institute History of Science
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