From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 29 11:36:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEE29154E5 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 11:36:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id UAA12446; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 20:25:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA24249; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 20:15:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199910291815.UAA24249@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: 2.88Mb floppies In-Reply-To: <199910282002.WAA01559@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Oct 28, 1999 10: 2:55 pm" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 20:15:18 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As J Wunsch wrote ... > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > Just having installed a 2.88Mb floppy drive in one of my axp boxes > > I wonder if FreeBSD can do 2.88Mb floppy disks. From the looks > > of the contents of /sys/i386/isa/fd.c: > .... > > it appears it cannot. > > It cannot. I once tried to hack support for 2.88 MB into the existing > driver, but eventually gave up. The driver needs a complete rewrite > in order to do this (or some royally painful hackups in order to > accomodate for the differing FDC clock frequencies, wrt. seek timing > etc.). > > Once i'm retired, i promise to rewrite that driver. :-) Point taken. Project shelved ;-) It was triggered by the size of boot.flp for Alpha and the availability of a couple of 2.88Mb drives. Never mind :) -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message