Does linux support 8-sector floppies?

David Lawyer (bf347@lafn.org)
Sat, 1 Aug 1998 21:31:20 -0700

Please reply to me directly. I'm doing more than my share by writing
HOWTO's on the serial port, etc.

I tried to read an 8-sector 5 1/4" floppy using kernel 2.0.34 and got
errors like:
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:01, sector 8
I also got errors for every 9th sector:17, 26. My drive works fine on
9-sector floppies. The original IBM PC used 8-sector floppies but soon
changed to 9-sector ones. I got the error while using tar, "most
/dev/fd1", etc.

Is this a bug or does Linux just not support 8-sector floppies?
Or is something wrong with my floppy drive?



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