From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 13 10:25:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA14744 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 10:25:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA14734 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 10:25:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0x9vwl-000048-00; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 11:25:27 -0600 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.8.7/8.8.3) with ESMTP id LAA00476; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 11:25:11 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199709131725.LAA00476@harmony.village.org> Subject: Re: Do *you* have problems with floppies? Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 13 Sep 1997 10:37:54 MDT." <199709131637.KAA05343@harmony.village.org> References: <199709131637.KAA05343@harmony.village.org> <19970913080939.WU46166@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199709122056.NAA24445@usr08.primenet.com> Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 11:25:11 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199709131637.KAA05343@harmony.village.org> Warner Losh writes: : Actually, the ready line was either 33 or 34, which is at the end of : the cable for the SCSI. And it was to allow the drive to signal that ^^^^ floppy disk is what I really wanted to say here. : the physical disk had changed. Older floppies had this pin being : READY, while newer (1.2M and 1.44M and many 720k) ones had it meaning : disk change.