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Date:      Thu, 15 Jan 1998 22:27:02 +1300
From:      Mark Ibell <marki@ihug.co.nz>
To:        Brent Scheffler <btek99@gte.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Support for LS-120 drives?
Message-ID:  <34BDD666.41C67EA6@ihug.co.nz>
References:  <34BDC03A.3C26FC7@gte.net>

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Brent Scheffler wrote:
> 
> I was wondering... I recently attempted to install Debian Linux on my
> system only to find out that the LS-120 (which is my only source of
> floppy interface) is not supported as well as all my other PnP PCI and
> ISA devices. Will FreeBSD support the LS-120 drive and if so as the only
> source of floppy interface? Thank you in advance.
> 

At this time LS-120 support is not included in the FreeBSD kernel.
However a patch exists that will allow such support.

Your best bet is to install FreeBSD (yep - you can boot the install
floppy just fine with an LS-120), and then grab an LS-120 driver from:

  http://www.jp.freebsd.org/~junichi/ls120.html

### Mark ###



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