Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 10:32:23 -0500 From: northern snowfall <dbailey27@ameritech.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: leblanc+freebsd@keyslapper.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.25" Floppy Message-ID: <3E43D187.3050500@ameritech.net> References: <3E436DBE.3020200@ameritech.net> <134e01c2ce84$bbea88f0$0a0aa8c0@dweebsoft.com> <20030207151651.GA42083@keyslapper.org>
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> > >I thought that was the newer ones. Weren't the old style 5.25s 640K? >It's been so long . . . > Model independant >Where the heck did you even find a working one? > Around the house. We have three... >Even the 3.5s are >pretty much beyond usefulness for me now that the net is everywhere >and the CDRWs are so easy and cheap, but those 5.25s would be pretty >interesting for nostalgia. > Nostalgia, sure... but, hacking an 8086 boot disk just to access an even more ancient hard disk with an original 70s FORTRAN compiler and libraries? Much cooler. >Either way, I'll bet Daxbert's advice will at least set you in the >right direction. > >Good luck. > I appreciate the luck =) But, I tried that before posting to the lists. No such luck in that direction. The driver plumbs the "fd?.*" interface along with the "fd?" interface based on values probed from the CMOS, so, its basically a namespace bind on static size media. Don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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