Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:41:31 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: old flopy drive on parallel port Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0812281724550.23510@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20081227120610.GA8365@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <20081227120610.GA8365@rebelion.Sisis.de>
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On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Matthias Apitz wrote: > I've just thrown away an very old laptop which was running FreeBSD 2.2.5 > in the mid of the 90's; this have had an external 3.5 inch floppy drive, > connected through a cable to the parallel port and this way fully supported, > even for the basic installation of FreeBSD which was based on making a > boot-able floppy; I saved this drive because I still have some old > floppies here around and at home no other drive to read them; Support may have been through hardware on the laptop. ISTR some old machines doing that: a special parallel-port floppy would be seen by the system, and the OS wouldn't know the difference. > My question is: can it be used / plug'eg in without any danger into to parallel > port of my actual laptop (Fujitsu Siemens) and is this somehow still supported > in FreeBSD 7.0 as well? If it was hardware supported by the old laptop, it could do bad things to a current system. Physical "let the smoke out" things. External USB floppy drives are cheap, although I don't know how well they work with FreeBSD. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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