Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 20:32:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Nick Hibma <n_hibma@calcaphon.com> To: USB BSD list <usb-bsd@egroups.com>, FreeBSD CURRENT Mailing List <current@freebsd.org> Cc: Terje Elde <delta@xti.org>, Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>, Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net>, Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>, Thomas Graichen <graichen@innominate.de>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, "Chen, Albert L" <albert.l.chen@intel.com>, "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>, MAEKAWA Masahide <gehenna@freebsd.org>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Subject: Support for USB floppy drives Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0003021603120.6809-100000@localhost>
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[Apologies for duplicates. Some people have shown interest in the past, asked about the driver and I thought it would be polite to send them an update on this.] Support for USB floppy drives has been added to the umass driver. Thanks to Jim Blackson at Y-E Data for providing the floppy drive. The support will be committed to current as soon as code freeze is over. This is _not_ for the faint of heart. It might crash your machine in various ways. To make it work you will have to cvsup to tonight's version of FreeBSD-CURRENT (4.0-RC as of 2000/03/02 02:00) and apply the patch available from http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/usb/ The following commands seem to work: camcontrol rescan 0 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=10k count=100 disklabel -r -w da0 fd1440 newfs /dev/da0 Keep me posted on the results or any problems you have. Nick -- n_hibma@webweaving.org n_hibma@freebsd.org USB project http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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