From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 19 0:55: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E71F637B408 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 00:54:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g5J7r4Ij032085; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:53:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: hm@kts.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8" floppy drive anyone ? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:51:46 +0200." <20020619075146.5A9AA5598@bert.kts.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:53:04 +0200 Message-ID: <32084.1024473184@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20020619075146.5A9AA5598@bert.kts.org>, Hellmuth Michaelis writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> I have a bunch of 8" floppies I need to try to recover contents >> from, is there anybody out there who has a 8" drive they'd be willing >> to part with for $$ ? > >Sorry, but i'm in the same boat. I have an old Hewlett-Packard HPIB 8" >Floppydrive here and i wonder if it is possible to connect (and access) >it with one of those supported GPIB cards or directly by connecting it >to a PC floppy controller ? Has anybody experience with this ? If you have a NEC7210 based GPIB card, I have a rudimentary userland driver for it. I use it for some HP boxes when I fiddle my timekeeping gadgets. I don't know about accessing floppies over GPIB (well, I _do_ know about the non-standard way Commodore did it but...) but if you can find the docs you can probably code it up pretty easily. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message