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FDC(4) Device Drivers Manual (amiga) FDC(4)

fdc — Amiga custom chip floppy disk controller device

fdc0 at mainbus0
fd* at fdc? unit ?

The fdc device driver provides support for the mainboard floppy disk controller and floppy disk drives on Amiga systems.

The driver supports the following floppy diskette formats by using particular partitions:

880KB 3.5-inch 11 sectors/track (``Amiga'') (a)
 
1.76MB 3.5-inch 22 sectors/track (``Amiga'') (a)
 
880KB 5.25-inch 11 sectors/track (``Amiga'') (a)
 
720KB 3.5-inch 9 sectors/track (``MS-DOS'') (b)
 
1.44MB 3.5-inch 18 sectors/track (``MS-DOS'') (b)
 
720KB 5.25-inch 9 sectors/track (``MS-DOS'') (b)
 
On systems equipped with floppy disk drives capable of using high-density floppy diskettes, the driver automatically detects whether the inserted floppy diskette is either a double-density or a high-density medium.

fdc: unable to allocate DMA buffer
The driver found the controller, but was unable to allocate the amount of chip memory required for its DMA buffers.

fdformat(1), amiga/autoconf(4)

In order to detect a floppy disk drive's capability of using high-density media, a high-density diskette has to be inserted for the duration of the autoconfiguration phase of the drive.

The fdc driver supports neither the fdformat(1) facility nor the <sys/fdio.h> interface.

February 17, 2017 NetBSD-9.2