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28.Dd February 17, 2017
29.Dt RF 4 vax
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm rf
33.Nd
34.Tn DEC RX01 / RX02
35floppy disk interface
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Cd "rfc0 at uba? csr 0177170     # RX01/RX02 controller"
38.Cd "rf*  at rfc? drive?          # RX01/RX02 floppy disk drive"
39.Sh DESCRIPTION
40The
41.Nm rf
42device provides access to
43.Tn DEC
44.Tn RX01
45and
46.Tn RX02
47floppy disk drives and clones thereof.
48These drives use preformatted 8" single sided, soft sectored media.
49The
50.Tn RX01
51and
52.Tn RX02
53drives use a geometry of 77 cylinders, one head and 26 sectors.
54Each sector contains 128 bytes in case of single density (
55.Tn RX01
56and
57.Tn RX02
58in
59.Tn RX01
60mode) or 256 bytes in double density mode.
61As
62.Nx
63is not able to handle non-512 byte media the driver translates this
64to a geometry of 50 cylinders, one head and 10 sectors in single
65density and 77 cylinders, one head and 13 sectors in double density
66mode.
67While the later matches the total number of sectors, the fake
68geometry in single density does not cover the last two physical
69sectors exact, but it is possible to access this sectors at 512
70byte LBN 501.
71When a 512 byte block is written to LBN 501 the last 256 bytes are ignored.
72When this 512 byte block is read the last 256 bytes contain undefined data.
73.Pp
74This driver supports three minor devices corresponding to the slices:
75.Bl -column Slice -offset indent
76.It Sy Slice	Description
77.It a	Single density only mode.
78.It b	Double density only mode.
79.It c	Density autodetect.
80.El
81As the
82.Tn RX01
83and
84.Tn RX02
85hardware is not able to support formatting a blank disk, this driver has
86no support for according IOCTLs.
87But there are clones from third party vendors that support formatting.
88Formatting a blank disk may be initiated
89by the following commands on the VAX chevron prompt:
90.Bl -column Otherx -offset indent
91.It Single density
92.It d/p/w 20001E78 9
93.It d/p/w 20001E7A 92
94.El
95.Bl -column Otherx -offset indent
96.It Double density
97.It d/p/w 20001E78 109
98.It d/p/w 20001E7A 92
99.El
100.Sh FILES
101.Bl -tag -width /dev/rx?xx -compact
102.It Pa /dev/rf?[abc]
103.It Pa /dev/rrf?[abc]
104.El
105.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
106.Bl -diag
107.It "rfc_attach: Error creating bus_dma map: %d"
108.It "did not respond to INIT CMD"
109Possible errors during
110.Xr vax/autoconf 4 .
111%d is the return code of
112.Xr bus_dmamap_create 9 .
113.It "%s: did not respond to CMD %x"
114An error occurred while the driver tried to send command %x to drive %s.
115.It "rfc_intr: Error while reading sector: %x"
116.It "rfc_intr: Error while writing sector: %x"
117.It "rfc_intr: Error while DMA: %x"
118%x is status code from the controller error and status register.
119.It "rfc_intr: Error while loading bus_dma map: %d"
120%d is return code of
121.Xr bus_dmamap_load 9 .
122.It "%s: density error."
123A single density disk was opened in double density only mode or vice
124versa or the medium in the drive attached as %s was not readable at all.
125.El
126.Sh SEE ALSO
127.Xr dd 1 ,
128.Xr tar 1 ,
129.Xr vax/intro 4 ,
130.Xr disklabel 5 ,
131.Xr disklabel 8 ,
132.Xr mknod 8 ,
133.Xr mount 8 ,
134.Xr newfs 8
135.Sh HISTORY
136The rf driver appeared in
137.Nx 2.0 .
138It is a complete rewrite, not related to the old 4.2BSD
139.Nm rx
140driver.
141.Sh AUTHORS
142.An Jochen Kunz
143.Sh BUGS
144Writing of a
145.Xr disklabel 5
146is not supported.
147The driver return always the internally fake disklabel.
148