1.44M floppy under 2.2.3

[John F. Haugh II]

I recently purchased a 3.5" floppy, so sorry if I found out
about this a few years too late ;-)

According to the documentation for 2.2.3 a 1.44M floppy is
supported as minor device 60 [ 61 as the B: drive ].  I've
tried to format floppies on it and format complains that it
is not a formatable device.  Like this:

Script is typescript, started Sat Aug  5 06:54:50 1989
Subscript out of range.
1 - #rpp386-> format /dev/rfd0135ds18
format: /dev/rfd0135ds18 not a formattable device
2 - #rpp386-> ls -l /dev/rfd0135ds18
brw-r-----   1 root     root       2, 60 Aug  5  1989 /dev/rfd0135ds18
3 - #rpp386-> logout
Not a terminal: Not a character device
John's Words of Wisdumb -
Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy
it today you can do it again tomorrow.
Script done Sat Aug  5 06:55:15 1989

Oh, am I doing something wrong?  Like expecting it to work
in the first place?
-- 
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