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36.Dd June 5, 1993
37.Dt FL 4 vax
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm fl
41.Nd console floppy interface
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43This is a simple interface to the
44.Tn DEC
45.Tn RX01
46floppy disk unit, which is part of the console
47.Tn LSI-11
48subsystem for
49.Tn VAX-11/780 Ns s .
50Access is given to the entire
51floppy consisting of 77 tracks of 26 sectors of 128 bytes.
52.Pp
53All I/O is raw; the seek addresses in raw transfers should be a multiple
54of 128 bytes and a multiple of 128 bytes should be transferred,
55as in other
56.Dq raw
57disk interfaces.
58.Sh FILES
59.Bl -tag -width /dev/floppy -compact
60.It Pa /dev/floppy
61.El
62.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
63None.
64.Sh SEE ALSO
65.Xr arff 8
66.Sh HISTORY
67The
68.Nm
69driver appeared in
70.Bx 4.0 .
71.Sh BUGS
72Multiple console floppies are not supported.
73.Pp
74If a write is given with a count not a multiple of 128 bytes then
75the trailing portion of the last sector will be zeroed.
76