FDCONTROL(8)

NAME
fdcontrol - modify floppy disk parameters

SYNOPSIS
fdcontrol device

DESCRIPTION
The fdcontrol utility allows the modification of the run-time behavior of the floppy disk device specified by device. Device should be a character device. It currently supports the specification of device parameters for the floppy disk drive.

Since the implications of such actions are considered harmful, the underlying ioctl(2) command is restricted to the super-user.

When requesting a new parameter specification, the command asks the user for each individual tunable parameter, defaulting to the currently used value.

DIAGNOSTICS
Error codes for the underlying ioctl(2) commands are printed by the warn(3) facility.

SEE ALSO
ioctl(2), warn(3), fdc(4)

AUTHORS
The program has been contributed by Jörg Wunsch, Dresden.