Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 23:56:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.88Mb floppies Message-ID: <199909282156.XAA97702@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909280950280.322-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> from Doug Rabson at "Sep 28, 1999 9:51: 8 am"
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As Doug Rabson wrote ...
> On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Just having installed a 2.88Mb floppy drive in one of my axp boxes
> > I wonder if FreeBSD can do 2.88Mb floppy disks. From the looks
> > of the contents of /sys/i386/isa/fd.c:
> >
> > static struct fd_type fd_types[NUMTYPES] =
> > {
> > { 21,2,0xFF,0x04,82,3444,1,FDC_500KBPS,2,0x0C,2 }, /* 1.72M in HD 3.5in */
> > { 18,2,0xFF,0x1B,82,2952,1,FDC_500KBPS,2,0x6C,1 }, /* 1.48M in HD 3.5in */
> > { 18,2,0xFF,0x1B,80,2880,1,FDC_500KBPS,2,0x6C,1 }, /* 1.44M in HD 3.5in */
> >
> > it appears it cannot.
> >
> > Is this true? Is there anything that stops one from adding an appropriate
> > line to this struct? And to dev/MAKEDEV of course?
>
> I have no idea whether that driver can cope with 2.88mb floppies to be
> honest. There is only one way to find out...
Right. I'll give it a try asap. Somebody sent me a sample entry to
add to fd_type. But I want to do a bit of study on the fd source to see
if I can understand what all the fields mean.
Wilko
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