From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Feb 7 7:33: 1 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94FE637B401; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 07:32:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost.det2.ameritech.net (mailhost1-sfldmi.sfldmi.ameritech.net [206.141.193.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80EAF43F3F; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 07:32:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbailey27@ameritech.net) Received: from ameritech.net ([67.38.16.140]) by mailhost.det2.ameritech.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with ESMTP id <20030207153243.KZNT26543.mailhost.det2.ameritech.net@ameritech.net>; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 10:32:43 -0500 Message-ID: <3E43D187.3050500@ameritech.net> Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 10:32:23 -0500 From: northern snowfall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020518 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: leblanc+freebsd@keyslapper.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.25" Floppy References: <3E436DBE.3020200@ameritech.net> <134e01c2ce84$bbea88f0$0a0aa8c0@dweebsoft.com> <20030207151651.GA42083@keyslapper.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > >I thought that was the newer ones. Weren't the old style 5.25s 640K? >It's been so long . . . > Model independant >Where the heck did you even find a working one? > Around the house. We have three... >Even the 3.5s are >pretty much beyond usefulness for me now that the net is everywhere >and the CDRWs are so easy and cheap, but those 5.25s would be pretty >interesting for nostalgia. > Nostalgia, sure... but, hacking an 8086 boot disk just to access an even more ancient hard disk with an original 70s FORTRAN compiler and libraries? Much cooler. >Either way, I'll bet Daxbert's advice will at least set you in the >right direction. > >Good luck. > I appreciate the luck =) But, I tried that before posting to the lists. No such luck in that direction. The driver plumbs the "fd?.*" interface along with the "fd?" interface based on values probed from the CMOS, so, its basically a namespace bind on static size media. Don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message