From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 20 11:35: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6403A14CAF for ; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 11:35:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id UAA21897; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 20:28:48 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA01214; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 20:27:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199910201827.UAA01214@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: 2.88Mb floppies In-Reply-To: <199910071914.NAA60735@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Oct 7, 1999 1:14:33 pm" To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 20:27:04 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Warner Losh wrote ... > In message <199910021904.VAA16526@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Oliver Fromme writes: > : Beware, I have not actually tried this with FreeBSD, and there > : might be bugs that prevent using 2.88 Mb floppies. > > The BIOS will report a different value for the 2.88MB drives to the > probe routines... You may need to do some touchup there as well. As you seem to have used these 2.88 drives before: do I need to do something special when I install a 2.88 into a PC? I set the BIOS setup to 2.88 and hooked up the drive. I'm using WinNT (I know...) to check if the drives are OK in the first place. Does one need a special cable maybe? Reason for asking: on neither of the 2 drives WinNT wants for format. Rather it does 1E6 retries (judging from the sound the drive makes). This is on new 2.88Mb media Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message