From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 24 20:20:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA08049 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 20:16:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from tokyonet-entrance.astec.co.jp (tokyonet-entrance.astec.co.jp [202.239.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA08034 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 20:15:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junichi@astec.co.jp) Received: from amont.astec.co.jp (amont.astec.co.jp [172.20.10.1]) by tokyonet-entrance.astec.co.jp (8.8.8+2.7Wbeta7/3.6W-astecMX2.3) with ESMTP id NAA29189; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 13:15:48 +0900 (JST) Received: from stone.astec.co.jp (stone.astec.co.jp [172.20.10.23]) by amont.astec.co.jp (8.7.6/3.6Wbeta5-astecMX2.4) with ESMTP id NAA27775; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 13:15:47 +0900 (JST) Received: (from junichi@localhost) by stone.astec.co.jp (8.8.5/3.5W-solaris1-1.2) id NAA17212; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 13:15:46 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199711250415.NAA17212@stone.astec.co.jp> To: Rudy Gireyev cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LS120 driver In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 Nov 1997 18:18:06 PST." <19971125021806.22306.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 13:15:45 +0900 From: Satoh Junichi Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > A big log fell on my head the other day and right after that > I thought hey, why don't I write a device driver for the LS120 > drive(s) for FreeBSD. These beasts are backwards compatible all > the way to the very useful 720K capacity, 1.44 Meg and of course > the 120Meg, the latter requiring a new disk type. > As I thought about this more, and the damage appeared to set in, I > came up with some questions which I now present for your review: I wrote a driver for the ATAPI LS-120. ^^^^^ It allows to read/write following disks: . 120MB . 1.44MB . 1.25MB (PC-9801 format, 1024Byte/sec) . 1.2MB . 720KB If you try to use it, you can download it from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/atapi-LS120-driver-971124.tar.gz or http://www.jp.freebsd.org/~junichi --- Junichi