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Date:      Fri, 9 Jun 1995 08:51:26 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        andy@anigma.win.net
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tools-third party sys device drivers
Message-ID:  <199506090651.IAA02958@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <21@anigma.win.net> from "Mr. Andrew Micheals" at Jun 8, 95 04:40:23 pm

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As Mr. Andrew Micheals wrote:
> 

[wants further floppy drives]

>           Have read brief articles on the subject known as third
> party driver but without much detail. Would anyone know of who
> supplies anything like this or or has a geni in a bottle that
> could build one, my thanks for your attention.

Why talking about third-party drivers when the first-party one will do
well?

All you need to find (an hah!, that's the challenge!) is a floppy
controller board that you can: jumper to a different address (e.g.
0x370 - the reserved address for a second FDC) AND a different IRQ AND
a different DRQ.  Then add a line like

controller      fdc1    at isa? port "0x370" bio irq XX drq XX vector fdintr
disk            fd2     at fdc1 drive 0
disk            fd3     at fdc1 drive 1

in your config file.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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