From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 29 15:22:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8020016A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:22:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from catseye.mine.nu (d207-81-17-215.bchsia.telus.net [207.81.17.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 519BE43D48 for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:22:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from catseye@catseye.mine.nu) Received: (qmail 57186 invoked by uid 1001); 29 Dec 2003 23:26:28 -0000 Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:26:28 -0800 From: Chris Pressey To: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com Message-Id: <20031229152628.7f5a7793.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: References: <000801c3ce5b$d65fe360$0a00a8c0@atlas> Organization: Cat's Eye Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@FreeBSD.org cc: runman@speedfactory.net Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD allow one to use the Floppy Drive on a SunBlade 100 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 23:22:47 -0000 > > -----Original Message----- > > I am looking for a replacement OS that I can put on my SunBlade > > 100. Currently I am using Solaris 9. I have looked at Debian and > > OpenBSD and both OS's cannot use the floppy drive. I have Googled > > and I know that FreeBSD 4.9 cannot utilize the floppy drive as well > > as (I think) 5.0. Does 5.1 change this ? > > > > TIA > > > > Greg On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 18:05:40 -0500 "fbsd_user" wrote: > I have Googled and I know that FreeBSD 4.9 cannot utilize the > floppy drive as well. > > You are complete wrong. > > I have been using FBSD since 4.2 and the floppy has been working for > me. According to http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/hardware-sparc64.html, "1.44 Mbyte floppy drives" are not supported. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/hardware-sparc64.html doesn't say anything about floppy drives that I could find, but it says that Sun Blade 100 is "Fully Supported." I suppose can infer from that that floppy drive support on the Sun Blade 100 made it in between 5.0 and 5.1. -Chris