Floppy drives

[Pete Holsberg]

In looking through /dev for diskette device files, I came across a
puzzling set of directory listings.  For example, for the device 1,0, I
can find no less than 13 different entries with 6 different names and 3
different link counts!  Here they are (number of links in parens):

/dev/SA:   diskette (1), f0q15dt (5)
/dev/rSA:  diskette (1), f0q15dt (6 !!)
/dev/dsk:  0s24 (5),     f0q15dt (5 !!), fd (5),    fd096 (5)
/dev/rdsk: 0s24 (6 !!),  f0q15dt (6 !!), fd (6 !!), fd096 (6 !!)
/dev/dos:  A (6)

Can someone explain this?

Also, someone sent me some disks that he claims are 720K, 9
sectors/track, 80 track animals, and says that they can be read with
/dev/dsk/f05qt.   There ain't no f05qt in /dev/*.  How can I read these?

Thanks.

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