From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 8 23:55:57 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA17556 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 23:55:57 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA17545 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 23:55:47 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA23203; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 08:52:50 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA19486; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 08:52:47 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA02958; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 08:51:27 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506090651.IAA02958@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: tools-third party sys device drivers To: andy@anigma.win.net Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 08:51:26 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <21@anigma.win.net> from "Mr. Andrew Micheals" at Jun 8, 95 04:40:23 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 955 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Mr. Andrew Micheals wrote: > [wants further floppy drives] > Have read brief articles on the subject known as third > party driver but without much detail. Would anyone know of who > supplies anything like this or or has a geni in a bottle that > could build one, my thanks for your attention. Why talking about third-party drivers when the first-party one will do well? All you need to find (an hah!, that's the challenge!) is a floppy controller board that you can: jumper to a different address (e.g. 0x370 - the reserved address for a second FDC) AND a different IRQ AND a different DRQ. Then add a line like controller fdc1 at isa? port "0x370" bio irq XX drq XX vector fdintr disk fd2 at fdc1 drive 0 disk fd3 at fdc1 drive 1 in your config file. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)