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37.Dd February 28, 1998
38.Dt FDC 4 amiga
39.Os
40.Sh NAME
41.Nm fdc
42.Nd Amiga custom chip floppy disk controller device
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.Cd "fdc0 at mainbus0"
45.Cd "fd* at fdc? unit ?"
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Nm
49device driver provides support for the mainboard floppy disk controller and
50floppy disk drives on Amiga systems.
51.Pp
52The driver supports the following floppy diskette formats by using
53particular partitions:
54.Bl -tag -width Dv -offset indent -compact
55.It "880KB " "3.5-inch " 11 sectors/track (``Amiga'') (a)
56.It "1.76MB" "3.5-inch " 22 sectors/track (``Amiga'') (a)
57.It "880KB " "5.25-inch" 11 sectors/track (``Amiga'') (a)
58.It "720KB " "3.5-inch "  9 sectors/track (``MS-DOS'') (b)
59.It "1.44MB" "3.5-inch " 18 sectors/track (``MS-DOS'') (b)
60.It "720KB " "5.25-inch"  9 sectors/track (``MS-DOS'') (b)
61.El
62On systems equipped with floppy disk drives capable of using high-density
63floppy diskettes,
64the driver automatically detects whether the inserted floppy diskette is
65either a double-density or a high-density medium.
66.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
67.Bl -diag
68.It "fdc: unable to allocate dma buffer"
69The driver found the controller, but was unable to allocate the
70amount of chip memory required for its DMA buffers.
71.El
72.Sh SEE ALSO
73.Xr fdformat 1 ,
74.Xr autoconf 4
75.Sh BUGS
76In order to detect a floppy disk drive's capability of using high-density
77media, a high-density diskette has to be inserted for the duration of the
78autoconfiguration phase of the drive.
79.Pp
80The
81.Nm
82driver supports neither the
83.Xr fdformat 1
84facility nor the
85.Pa Aq sys/fdio.h
86interface.
87