Name

       setfdprm - sets user-provided floppy disk parameters

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Description

          setfdprm [-p] device media-description

          setfdprm [-c | -y | -n] device

       setfdprm is a utility that can be used to load disk parameters into the auto-detecting floppy devices and
       "fixed parameter" floppy devices, to clear old  parameter  sets  and  to  disable  or  enable  diagnostic
       messages.  These parameters are derived from a media-description, see section  Media description for more
       details.

       Without  any  options,  setfdprm  loads  the  device  (for  example  `/dev/fd0' or `/dev/fd1') with a new
       parameter set with  the  name  entry  found  in  `/etc/mediaprm'  (usually  named  360/360,  etc.).   For
       autodetecting  floppy  devices,  these  parameters  stay in effect until the media is changed. For "fixed
       parameter" devices, they stay in effect until they are changed again.

       Setfdprm can also be used by the superuser to redefine the default formats.

Options

       -p device name
              Permanently loads a new parameter set for the specified auto-configuring  floppy  device  for  the
              configuration  with  name  in `/etc/mediaprm'. Alternatively, the parameters can be given directly
              from the command line.

       -c device
              Clears the parameter set of the specified auto-configuring floppy device.

       -y device
              Enables format detection messages for the specified auto-configuring floppy device.

       -n device
              Disables format detection messages for the specified auto-configuring floppy device.

Media description

       Please see the Media description section in the full fdutils documentation:
       - Texinfo documentation (info fdutils)
       - HTML documentation in /usr/share/doc/fdutils/Fdutils.html
       - or DVI documentation in /usr/share/doc/fdutils/Fdutils.dvi.gz

Bugs

       This documentation is grossly incomplete.

See Also

       Fdutils' texinfo doc

fdutils-5.6                                          27Jan21                                         setfdprm(1)