Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:57:04 +0200 (CEST) From: hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8" floppy drive anyone ? Message-ID: <20020619085704.4D37C5598@bert.kts.org> In-Reply-To: <32084.1024473184@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >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.
Yes, i've got an ISA card from Scientific Solutions, just mailed them
for jumper docs ...
> 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.
Yes, i have docs (i suppose its the "Amigo" and/or SS1 command set) :-)
Would you please mail me the driver ?
hellmuth
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