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Date:      Fri, 14 Aug 2020 21:20:25 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@kukulies.org>
Cc:        Ruben via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 5.25" Floppy disk drive not recognized
Message-ID:  <20200814212025.de2ba2f0.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <C8787065-AD7F-4F1F-B6D8-563B39F5DA37@kukulies.org>
References:  <wu7ft8pmwpo.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <C8787065-AD7F-4F1F-B6D8-563B39F5DA37@kukulies.org>

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On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 12:50:50 +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> First problem was to recognize the 5.25“ drive from the BIOS.
> This MB seems to only support one floppydrive. It comes with an ASUS branded point to point cable (one connector only).
> 
> At least I managed that FBSD now recognizes the drive:
> 
> fdc0: <floppy drive controller (FDE)> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
> fd0: <1200-KB 5.25" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
> 
> But when I’m trying to
> d# dd if=/dev/fd0 of=fd_dump 
> dd: /dev/fd0: Device not configured
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes transferred in 0.000252 secs (0 bytes/sec)
> # 
> 
> 
> Do I have to specify  special blocksize?

Try bs=512, that is a typical block size for floppy access.



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Polytropon
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