From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 15 01:26:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA22102 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 01:26:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chong.ihug.co.nz (root@chong.ihug.co.nz [203.29.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA22098 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 01:26:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marki@ihug.co.nz) Received: from myname.my.domain (p43-max20.auck.ihug.co.nz [207.212.240.107]) by chong.ihug.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA18979; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 22:27:44 +1300 Message-ID: <34BDD666.41C67EA6@ihug.co.nz> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 22:27:02 +1300 From: Mark Ibell X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brent Scheffler CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for LS-120 drives? References: <34BDC03A.3C26FC7@gte.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 ###