From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 28 13:20:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B08015485 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 13:20:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id WAA17465 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 22:20:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.1) id WAA01559; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 22:02:55 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from j) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 22:02:55 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199910282002.WAA01559@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E References: <199909272039.WAA04128@yedi.iaf.nl> From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Subject: Re: 2.88Mb floppies X-Original-Newsgroups: local.freebsd.hackers To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wilko Bulte wrote: > 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: .... > it appears it cannot. It cannot. I once tried to hack support for 2.88 MB into the existing driver, but eventually gave up. The driver needs a complete rewrite in order to do this (or some royally painful hackups in order to accomodate for the differing FDC clock frequencies, wrt. seek timing etc.). Once i'm retired, i promise to rewrite that driver. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message