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30.Dd February 17, 2017
31.Dt FDC 4 amiga
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm fdc
35.Nd Amiga custom chip floppy disk controller device
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Cd "fdc0 at mainbus0"
38.Cd "fd* at fdc? unit ?"
39.Sh DESCRIPTION
40The
41.Nm
42device driver provides support for the mainboard floppy disk controller and
43floppy disk drives on Amiga systems.
44.Pp
45The driver supports the following floppy diskette formats by using
46particular partitions:
47.Bl -tag -width Dv -offset indent -compact
48.It "880KB " "3.5-inch " 11 sectors/track (``Amiga'') (a)
49.It "1.76MB" "3.5-inch " 22 sectors/track (``Amiga'') (a)
50.It "880KB " "5.25-inch" 11 sectors/track (``Amiga'') (a)
51.It "720KB " "3.5-inch "  9 sectors/track (``MS-DOS'') (b)
52.It "1.44MB" "3.5-inch " 18 sectors/track (``MS-DOS'') (b)
53.It "720KB " "5.25-inch"  9 sectors/track (``MS-DOS'') (b)
54.El
55On systems equipped with floppy disk drives capable of using high-density
56floppy diskettes,
57the driver automatically detects whether the inserted floppy diskette is
58either a double-density or a high-density medium.
59.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
60.Bl -diag
61.It "fdc: unable to allocate DMA buffer"
62The driver found the controller, but was unable to allocate the
63amount of chip memory required for its DMA buffers.
64.El
65.Sh SEE ALSO
66.Xr fdformat 1 ,
67.Xr amiga/autoconf 4
68.Sh BUGS
69In order to detect a floppy disk drive's capability of using high-density
70media, a high-density diskette has to be inserted for the duration of the
71autoconfiguration phase of the drive.
72.Pp
73The
74.Nm
75driver supports neither the
76.Xr fdformat 1
77facility nor the
78.In sys/fdio.h
79interface.
80