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From: chn@lanl.gov (Charles Neil)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: A/UX 2.0.1 use of 800K drives
Summary: fd: d1 400K drive unusable.
Message-ID: <23229@lanl.gov>
Date: 5 May 91 14:55:19 GMT
References: <1991May5.011113.462@skbat.csc.ti.com>
Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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In article <1991May5.011113.462@skbat.csc.ti.com>, dittman@skbat.csc.ti.com (Eric Dittman) writes:
 > My Mac IIfx has two floppies.  d0 (the one one the right) is an FDHD drive,
 > and d1 is an 800K drive.  A/UX 2.0 and 2.0.1 both say d1 is a 400K drive and
 > is therefore unusable.  Why is this?
 > -- 
 > Eric Dittman
 > Texas Instruments - Component Test Facility
 > dittman@skitzo.csc.ti.com
 > dittman@skbat.csc.ti.com

I have the same hardware setup and the same floppy problem. On the Mac
side of A/UX, if I insert a previously-formatted 800K floppy, it works ok.
But if I insert an unformatted floppy I get the single-sided dialog. On
the UNIX side of A/UX, newfs won't work, but I can format and create an
800K file system using diskformat and /etc/fs/ufs/mkfs directly.
-- 

	-Charlie Neil (chn@lanl.gov)
	 Los Alamos National Laboratory (505) 665-0978