Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 10:42:34 +0000 From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> To: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> Cc: Alex Kozlov <ak@freebsd.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deprecating / Removing floppy drive support Message-ID: <6BB03804-172F-40C0-97A9-8360971B3364@gid.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <387b63e9-f97c-fa2d-192d-8e36cb2dbcba@digiware.nl> References: <201712030616.vB36GFEg026146@slippy.cwsent.com> <43746890-e60a-5c8f-4c77-bbfe9a5a6aa9@selasky.org> <67961.1512296877@critter.freebsd.dk> <20171203120028.32f84314@ernst.home> <20171203113341.GA68792@ravenloft.kiev.ua> <23404.1512302187@critter.freebsd.dk> <20171203121821.GA69142@ravenloft.kiev.ua> <387b63e9-f97c-fa2d-192d-8e36cb2dbcba@digiware.nl>
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Hi, > On 4 Dec 2017, at 09:26, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> wrote: >=20 > On 03/12/2017 13:18, Alex Kozlov wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 11:56:27AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>> -------- >>> In message <20171203113341.GA68792@ravenloft.kiev.ua>, Alex Kozlov = writes: >>>> On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 12:00:28PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote: >>>>> On Sun, 03 Dec 2017 10:27:57 +0000 >>>>> "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: >>>>>=20 >>>>>> Incidentally FreeBSD is/was the only modern OS which could >>>>>> still read 8" floppies. >>>> Well, with proper* cable you can connect 8" drive to fdc and read >>>> it pretty much on any OS that supports floppies. >>> Uhm... no ? >>>=20 >>> Very few OS's have had 8" format compatible settings since CP/M >>> and even fewer handle the track46 pin correctly on write. >> I'd done it in dos, I read about successful setups for Linux and >> Windows(older). Anecdotally, I was not able to do it in FreeBSD. >=20 > Never too late to learn.... >=20 > I still think I have my (from 1982) 8" disks around with a ported CP/M = system to a TRS-80 like system... But ever since the Intel ASM/CPM = developement stack died on the University they have been lying round for = nostalgic reasons. And the hardware got dumped with the last move about = 12 years ago. >=20 > But it never ever occured to me that FreeBSD would be able to do 8", = if alone for the controller. But now I learn that it could have = worked... > Cool :) IIRC (it has been a while), the interfaces (h/w and protocol) to 8=E2=80=9D= drives varied somewhat by manufacturer. And yes, I do have at least one = drive, blank media and an alignment disk in the archive. > --WjW > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 -- Bob Bishop rb@gid.co.uk
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