Floppy Drive Arguments

All of the information in this section can be found in README.fd in linux/drivers/block. The following information is taken directly from this file.

Several points of interest include:

• Using floppy= arguments on the command line as well as in the LILO config file will result in the two arguments being concatenated.

• The floppy= argument can be used with insmod, however the syntax is slightly different.

• For insmod the floppy= is only entered once with the parameters following it in quotes as, floppy``daring two_fdc''.

• floppy=mask,allowed_drive_mask and floppy=all_drives are obsolete and should be replaced by: floppy=<drive>,<type>,cmos

Specifying a drive is mandatory when using more than 2 floppy drives, and sets the CMOS type for <drive> to <type>, where the CMOS types are:

0 - Use the value found in the physical CMOS
1 - 5 1/4 DD
2 - 5 1/4 HD
3 - 3 1/2 DD
4 - 3 1/2 HD
5 - 3 1/2 ED
6 - 3 1/2 ED
16 - unknown or not installed

Note: Type 5 is for use with AMI floppy drives. Under other circumstances this type was intended for use by floppy ``tapes''.

fdutils and mtools provide additional run-time configuration capabilities for the floppy drive, including reading high capacity disks.