From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 2 12:38:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from bluebottle.calcaphon.com (calcaphon.demon.co.uk [193.237.19.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92E2A37B6BA; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:38:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from n_hibma@calcaphon.com) Received: from henny.webweaving.org (dhcp36.calcaphon.com [10.0.1.36]) by bluebottle.calcaphon.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA98011; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 20:36:04 GMT (envelope-from n_hibma@calcaphon.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by henny.webweaving.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA00619; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 20:32:00 GMT (envelope-from n_hibma@calcaphon.com) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 20:32:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@localhost Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: USB BSD list , FreeBSD CURRENT Mailing List Cc: Terje Elde , Guido van Rooij , Ulf Zimmermann , Jacques Vidrine , Thomas Graichen , Mike Smith , "Chen, Albert L" , "Karsten W. Rohrbach" , MAEKAWA Masahide , "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Support for USB floppy drives Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [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