From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:tektronix!zehntel!sytek!menlo70!hao!seismo!harpo!eagle!karn
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: Summary: reading CP/M floppies on 11/780
Article-I.D.: eagle.825
Posted: Thu Mar 10 21:14:15 1983
Received: Sun Mar 13 06:47:10 1983
References: varian.128

One comment regarding reading floppies using the console drive on a VAX-11/780:

On the BTL versions of Unix, e.g., System III and V, the floppy driver
is slightly different - it skips the first track and applies the DEC RT-11
sector skew function to the remainder of the disk.  In addition, the
special file for the floppy is usually called /dev/conflp instead of
/dev/floppy.  It is a fairly simple matter to add another minor device
to the console driver to provide raw disk access a la BSD.

Phil