FL(4) | Device Drivers Manual (vax) | FL(4)

# NAME

`fl` —
console floppy interface

# DESCRIPTION

This is a simple interface to the DEC RX01 floppy disk unit, which is part of the console LSI-11 subsystem for VAX-11/780s. Access is given to the entire floppy consisting of 77 tracks of 26 sectors of 128 bytes.

All I/O is raw; the seek addresses in raw transfers should be a multiple of 128 bytes and a multiple of 128 bytes should be transferred, as in other “raw” disk interfaces.

# FILES

/dev/floppy

# DIAGNOSTICS

None.

# SEE ALSO

arff(8)

# HISTORY

The `fl` driver appeared in 4.0BSD.

# BUGS

Multiple console floppies are not supported.

If a write is given with a count not a multiple of 128 bytes then the trailing portion of the last sector will be zeroed.

June 5, 1993 | NetBSD 10.0