Hi, all,
It has been ages since I've used floppies in NetBSD very much, but
checking the man page, different slice letters are used to indicate disk
densities. From fdc(4):
The driver supports the following floppy diskette formats by using
particular partitions:
1.44MB 3.5-inch (b)
1.2MB 5.25-inch (c)
360KB 5.25-inch (1.2MB drive) (d)
360KB 5.25-inch (IBM-PC drive) (e)
720KB 3.5-inch (f)
720KB 5.25-inch (g)
360KB 3.5-inch (h)
A user on Reddit pointed out this error on booting a NetBSD 9 kernel on an
i80486 system:
boot device: fd0 [ 5.121888] fd0d: hard error reading fsbn 0 of 0-2 (st0
0x40<abnrml> st1 0x1<no_am> st2 0x0 cyl 0 head 0 sec 1)
https://www.reddit.com/r/NetBSD/comments/vh4wgc/a_little_bit_of_fun_booting_the_netbsd_162/idyrf95/
She wondered why fd0d is being used here. I can't imagine this is due to
scanning for a disklabel, since they've been around forever, so is this
perhaps due to dkwedge_discover?
John
