From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 10 04:29:36 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA10427 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 04:29:36 -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 EAA10412 for ; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 04:29:33 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA03861; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 13:29:29 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA29626 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 13:29:28 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA06777 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 12:25:59 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506101025.MAA06777@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: tools-third party sys device drivers To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 12:25:59 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199506091848.LAA26997@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jim Babb" at Jun 9, 95 01:52:41 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: 899 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jim Babb wrote: > > The fd0.1440 type devices should work to force the floppy type, even > beyond the drives the bios knows about. I doubt. There's too much hackery in the driver that abuses the mode bits. This has apparently been done to support e.g. 1.2 MB on 1.44 drives, etc. I'm _not_ going to make substantial changes to the floppy code before 2.1 ships, since i will avoid to break it in any way. 2.2 will be even-numbered, hence can get more experimental code. :) > He also requested 2.88 MB support. Got that working yet? :-) Unless somebody is going to spend me a drive and controller, i'm not going to do very much here. It should be detected as a 1.44 MB drive now, so people could at least use it like any other floppy drive. -- 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. ;-)