From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 19 1:57:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailout03.sul.t-online.com (mailout03.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50E8B37B412 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 01:57:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fwd07.sul.t-online.de by mailout03.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 17KbH8-00068Q-0B; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:57:14 +0200 Received: from ernie.kts.org (520021727764-0001@[217.80.9.24]) by fmrl07.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 17KbGz-1QaUsKC; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:57:05 +0200 Received: from bert.kts.org (bert.kts.org [194.55.156.2]) by ernie.kts.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 613534C965; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:57:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: by bert.kts.org (Postfix, from userid 100) id 4D37C5598; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:57:04 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: 8" floppy drive anyone ? In-Reply-To: <32084.1024473184@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:57:04 +0200 (CEST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Organization: Kitchen Table Systems Reply-To: hm@kts.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL95a (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20020619085704.4D37C5598@bert.kts.org> From: hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis) X-Sender: 520021727764-0001@t-dialin.net 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 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 -- Hellmuth Michaelis Hamburg, Europe hm@kts.org www.kts.org There is a difference between an open mind and a hole in the head. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message