From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 26 18:31:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from 1Cust245.tnt2.washington.dc.da.uu.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90C4914CE9; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 18:31:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 21:31:12 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman X-Sender: green@green.dyndns.org To: Peter Wemm Cc: KATO Takenori , FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: device name of floppy disk In-Reply-To: <19991226142053.8A38C1CA0@overcee.netplex.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > > # ln -f ${name}${unit}.1200 ${name}${unit}135ds15 > > # ln -f r${name}${unit}.1200 r${name}${unit}135ds15 > > > > 1. What is meanings of the name? I cannot understand meanings of > > `96', `96ds15' and `135ds15'. > > Those are the SCO Unix/Xenix compatable names. SCO (and SYSV/386) uses those > instead of "fdN.1440" etc. > > 48 = 48 tracks per inch = 5.25" disk, > 96 = 96 tracks per inch = 5.25" disk, > 135 = 135 tracks per inch = 3.5" disk Eh? I thought .1200 referred to 5.25" disk drives... -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message