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| .\" USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH | .\" USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH | ||||
| .\" DAMAGE. | .\" DAMAGE. | ||||
| .\" | .\" | ||||
| .\" $FreeBSD$ | .\" $FreeBSD$ | ||||
| .\" | .\" | ||||
| .Dd December 25, 2001 | .Dd April 7, 2017 | ||||
| .Dt FDCONTROL 8 | .Dt FDCONTROL 8 | ||||
| .Os | .Os | ||||
| .Sh NAME | .Sh NAME | ||||
| .Nm fdcontrol | .Nm fdcontrol | ||||
| .Nd display and modify floppy disk parameters | .Nd display and modify floppy disk parameters | ||||
| .Sh SYNOPSIS | .Sh SYNOPSIS | ||||
| .Nm | .Nm | ||||
| .Op Fl F | .Op Fl F | ||||
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| as input to the | as input to the | ||||
| .Fl s Ar fmtstr | .Fl s Ar fmtstr | ||||
| option (see below). | option (see below). | ||||
| Again, together with | Again, together with | ||||
| .Fl v , | .Fl v , | ||||
| some more text will be returned, including the total capacity of the | some more text will be returned, including the total capacity of the | ||||
| density settings in kilobytes. | density settings in kilobytes. | ||||
| .Ss Debug Control | .Ss Debug Control | ||||
| If the | |||||
| .Xr fdc 4 | |||||
| driver was configured with the | |||||
| .Dv FDC_DEBUG | |||||
| option, by default, device debugging information is still disabled | |||||
| since it could produce huge amounts of kernel messages. | |||||
| It needs to | |||||
| be turned on using | |||||
| .Nm | |||||
| together with | |||||
| .Dq Fl d Li 1 , | |||||
| usually immediately before starting an operation on the respective | |||||
| device the debug information is wanted for, and later turned off again | |||||
| using | |||||
| .Dq Fl d Li 0 . | |||||
| Note that debugging levels are a driver's global option that will | |||||
| affect any drives and controllers using the | |||||
| .Xr fdc 4 | |||||
| driver, regardless which | |||||
| .Ar device | |||||
| was specified on the | |||||
| .Nm | |||||
| command line. | |||||
| .Ss Density Control | |||||
| The | The | ||||
| .Xr fdc 4 | .Xr fdc 4 | ||||
| control utilities support two different options how to specify device | control utilities support two different options how to specify device | ||||
| density settings. | density settings. | ||||
| The first form uses | The first form uses | ||||
| .Fl f Ar fmt | .Fl f Ar fmt | ||||
| to specify the format of the medium in kilobytes. | to specify the format of the medium in kilobytes. | ||||
| Depending on the | Depending on the | ||||
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