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From: rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>
To: "Norman C. Rice" <nrice@emu.sourcee.com>
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Subject: Re: hardware question
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> > 	The LS120 is a probally not. It may be reconized as a second hard 
> > drive but I doubt it as it has Windows drivers. 
> 
> The LS-120 works fine with FreeBSD 3.0 -- I'm not sure about other
> versions. 
> 
> wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa
> wdc0: unit 0 (atapi): <LS-120 COSM   04     \
>   UHD Floppy/0270M09T>, removable, iordy
> 
> What do Windows drivers have to do with FreeBSD?

	That's good to know then. The problem I feared, is that the LS120 
drive is one of those 'Windows only' pieces of hardware. How the drive 
accesses the bus is a bit non-standard. I know some of the newer BIOS's 
support boot off Ls120, but I've never had one to play with. 


					Rick

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