Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 20:15:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.88Mb floppies Message-ID: <199910291815.UAA24249@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199910282002.WAA01559@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Oct 28, 1999 10: 2:55 pm"
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As J Wunsch wrote ... > Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> wrote: > > > Just having installed a 2.88Mb floppy drive in one of my axp boxes > > I wonder if FreeBSD can do 2.88Mb floppy disks. From the looks > > of the contents of /sys/i386/isa/fd.c: > .... > > it appears it cannot. > > It cannot. I once tried to hack support for 2.88 MB into the existing > driver, but eventually gave up. The driver needs a complete rewrite > in order to do this (or some royally painful hackups in order to > accomodate for the differing FDC clock frequencies, wrt. seek timing > etc.). > > Once i'm retired, i promise to rewrite that driver. :-) Point taken. Project shelved ;-) It was triggered by the size of boot.flp for Alpha and the availability of a couple of 2.88Mb drives. Never mind :) -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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