From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 14 09:11:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA15756 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 09:11:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wakky.dyn.ml.org (lee@1Cust32.tnt1.manassas.va.da.uu.net [153.37.113.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA15751 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 09:11:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from lee@localhost) by wakky.dyn.ml.org (8.8.5/8.8.3) id MAA15210; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 12:10:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970914121041.39698@wakky.dyn.ml.org> Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 12:10:41 -0400 From: Lee Cremeans To: Joerg Wunsch Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do *you* have problems with floppies? Reply-To: hcremean@vt.edu References: <19970914082044.BG34112@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199709141017.DAA15075@usr06.primenet.com> <19970914142654.GG28248@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <19970914142654.GG28248@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Sun, Sep 14, 1997 at 02:26:54PM +0200 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE X-Evil: microsoft.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, Sep 14, 1997 at 02:26:54PM +0200, J Wunsch wrote: > > How else could he still write nonsense about > ``head loading'', even though the last drives that did an on-demand > head loading were the good ol' 8-inch drives? (Still true in the > second edition, i verified this in a bookstore.) I have seen 1985-vintage 1.2MB 5.25" drves that did on-demand head loading, made by TEAC and Y-E Data...they were used in the original ATs. -- Lee C. -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet #watertower) A! JW223 YWD++^i WK+++r P&B++ SL++^i GDF B&M KK--i MD+++i P++ I++++ Did $++ E5/10/70/3c/73ac Ee34/1/36 H2 PonPippi Ay77 M | hcremean (at) vt.edu FreeBSD/Linux/Unix hacker...Win95 and M$ evil! (go see www.freebsd.org) My home page: http://wakky.dyn.ml.org/~lee | finger me for geek code