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Date:      Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:57:04 +0200 (CEST)
From:      hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis)
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 8" floppy drive anyone ?
Message-ID:  <20020619085704.4D37C5598@bert.kts.org>
In-Reply-To: <32084.1024473184@critter.freebsd.dk>

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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
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Hellmuth Michaelis        Hamburg, Europe        hm@kts.org        www.kts.org
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