Looks like the list is catching up a little...
On my machine, mknod has a different syntax ('mknod /dev/fd0u1722 b 2 60',
IIRC) and the referenced text file describes the magic device numbers. So
I make the device and I've been testing it like this:
% mkfs /dev/fd0u1722
% mount /dev/fd0u1722 /mnt/floppy
% cat /dev/urandom > /mnt/floppy/delme
% umount /mnt/floppy
% mkfs /dev/fd0
% mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
% cat /dev/urandom > /mnt/floppy/delme
% umount /mnt/floppy
And the first set produces a whole lot of I/O errors while the second set
works flawlessly. So I guess it's not working on my machine. If it would
help to post the errors, I can dig them up.... I don't know if it's the
media (which I consider poor quality) or, as I've seen posted, the 1.7MB
floppy is inherently unreliable... I'd think media (or BOTH) but I can
iterate the above and the same media works great as a 1.44 and then fails
as 1.7 then great as 1.44 ...
Oh yeah, unless I'm doing something stupid.... I don't use floppies on
Linux at all and mkfs is amazingly fast compared to DOS FORMAT... SO maybe
I'm skipping a step that would make the media reliable? Or maybe I need to
futz with something like "setfdprm'? (But I don't really understand what
the geometry of the disk is).
-Alan
At 06:32 PM 3/8/00 , Chad W. Skinner wrote:
>Alan,
>
>I did not see a reply to you message so I dug through the list and found a
>post with this in it.
>
> > mknod b 2 60 /dev/fd0u1722
> >
> > check /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt
>
>Note, I don't know if this worked for the original poster.
>
>Let me know if you have it working as I am interested as well.
>
>Chad
>
> > I've been reading docs on the Linux Router Project pages and they talk
> > about a 1.7MB floppy. Red Hat doesn't install the device; anyone
> > do so and can tell me how (or is there a HOWTO I've missed)?
>
>
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