Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 22:02:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.88Mb floppies Message-ID: <199910282002.WAA01559@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199909272039.WAA04128@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> 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. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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