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