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Re: rzdisk and Floppy Drive on a 5000/25

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From: Dietmar Weis
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 08:18
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goeke@space.mit.edu (Robert F. Goeke) writes:

>I'm running Ultrix 4.3 on a DECstation 5000/25, whose floppy drive is addressed
>as /dev/[r]fd0c.  rzdisk refuses to acknowledge this as a "legitimate" disk
>since it's name doesn't start with "rrz*" (but simply putting in a link
>twixt rfd0c and rrz0c doesn't fool it).  Did I miss something in the 4.3
>documentation or is this a bug?

In chapter 2.5.6 of the relnotes 4.3 you can read that you should use fddisk.

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