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Operating Systems HP-UX scsi floppy drive addressing Post 51071 by Drew_Harrison on Monday 10th of May 2004 02:17:28 PM
Old 05-10-2004
Question SCSI Floppy addresses

The documentation from the manufacturer doesn't seem to be available. That's what I'm trying to find. As with so many other things on the web, it can't be found where you would expect it, so we go looking in forums looking for other people who have solved the same problem.

I'm installing these in HP C110 and B180 workstations, in external enclosures connected to the "narrow SE" SCSI port.

I think you are looking only at one dimension of the address jumpers. Look at the diagram to the right of the motor. That, somehow, is supposed to indicate addressing jumper positions.

From looking at other floppy drives that I have acquired in this effort, it seems that these are the default jumper positions. Very few are set any other way. I have one external drive in a single disk enclosure that works. It's jumpers are in this same default configuration and I can address it at address 0. The drive definition is at /dev/rfloppy/c1t0d0. The 0 at the 4th character is what changes with the drive address; c1t0,d0, c1t1d0, c1t2do,...
 

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FD(4)							     Kernel Interfaces Manual							     FD(4)

NAME
fd - floppy disk DESCRIPTION
The fd* devices refer to the Floppy disk driver using the NEC PD765 floppy disk controller. These diskettes are arrays of 512 byte sec- tors, although Minix always works with two sectors at a time due to its 1024 byte block size. You can read or write any number of bytes however, Minix takes care of cutting and pasting incomplete blocks together. The driver is normally configured for two floppy disk devices fd0 and fd1. It can handle two more, but it is unlikely that the average PC can. On the first access to an fd device (by open(2) or mount(2)), the driver will execute a series of read tests to determine the floppy type. This works ok for all floppy types except the true 360k type, because it is indistinguishable from the 720k type. This only means that the size of the floppy is not estimated right. Bits 2-6 of the minor device number may be set to the floppy disk type to make it known to the driver what type of diskette it is reading or writing. The non-auto devices should be used for formatting, or when one wants to be absolutely sure that the device is accessed right. These devices exist for drive 0: type device minor media 0 fd0 0 autodetect 1 pc0 4 360k, 5.25" 2 at0 8 1.2M, 5.25" 3 qd0 12 360k in a 720k, 5.25" drive 4 ps0 16 720k, 3.5" 5 pat0 20 360k in a 1.2M, 5.25" drive 6 qh0 24 720k in a 1.2M, 5.25" drive 7 PS0 28 1.44M, 3.5" Type 4 may also be used for the rarely seen 720k, 5.25" floppies (type 2 made them obsolete fast.) Note that these "types" only describe the floppies from a software point of view, type 1 and 4 drives use the same parameters. If the format bit (bit 7) is set, then the driver interprets write commands as track formatting requests. This is used by the format(1) command. If the type bits are set to 28, 29, 30, or 31, then the driver uses a partition table found in sector 0 to partition the floppy. The par- titions of fd0 may be accessed as fd0a through fd0d. See hd(4) for a description of the partition table, and associated ioctl commands. FILES
/dev/fd[0-3], /dev/pc[0-3], /dev/at[0-3], /dev/qd[0-3], /dev/ps[0-3], /dev/pat[0-3], /dev/qh[0-3], /dev/PS[0-3], /dev/fd[0-3][a-d] SEE ALSO
format(1), hd(4), part(8). BUGS
The driver does not know the size of a 360k diskette in a 360k 5.25" drive, because it uses the 720k parameters for it. So it will happily try to read past the end making all kinds of interesting noises. It's a good thing these drives are practically obsolete. The partition table is only read when the drive motor is off and only for an auto or partition device. The driver assumes that a floppy in a drive with a running motor can't have been replaced all of a sudden. AUTHOR
Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl) FD(4)
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