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This driver provides access to floppy disk drives and QIC40/80 tapedrives. |
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This driver provides access to floppy disk drives and QIC40/80 tapedrives. |
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In /dev for each floppy device a number of minor devices are present. The |
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In /dev for each floppy device a number of minor devices are present. The |
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/dev/fd* devices with trailing alphabetic characters are used to indicate |
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/dev/fd* devices with trailing alphabetic characters are used to indicate |
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'partitions' on the floppy disk. The /dev/fd*.<number> are devices that |
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.Sq partitions |
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on the floppy disk. The /dev/fd*.<number> are devices that |
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indicate the size of the floppy disk (so: 720kB, 1440kB etc). The latter |
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indicate the size of the floppy disk (so: 720kB, 1440kB etc). The latter |
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are used for formatting disks using fdformat or for accessing different |
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are used for formatting disks using fdformat or for accessing different |
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density disks in multidensity drive. Example: 720kB disk in a 1.44Mb drive. |
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density disks in multidensity drive. Example: 720kB disk in a 1.44Mb drive. |