From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 28 15:24:49 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 7DDFE14F1A for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 15:24:39 -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 AAA31781; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 00:12:29 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA97702; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 23:56:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199909282156.XAA97702@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: 2.88Mb floppies In-Reply-To: from Doug Rabson at "Sep 28, 1999 9:51: 8 am" To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 23:56:04 +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 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 -- | / 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