On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > -------- > In message > <CADGWnjXv6YZQ83PjHuwP-rGyj6-j7=s6xiimd8mmfp6vlo_...@mail.gmail.com> > , "C. P. Ghost" writes: >>On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> >>wrote: > >>I was thinking of physical fdc(4). Is there a published interface >>to access the hardware, i.e. to tunnel the commands and return >>values to and from the device? Something like pass(4) but for >>floppies? That way, fdc could be moved to user space and more >>easily debugged. > > Look at /dev/io.
Yes, excellent! That was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you. > But seriously: All our old releases are available on the net, > 4.11 and 6.2 were both great releases and they have wonderful > floppy support. Sure, there's always a way to read old floppies, it is just not as convenient. We should really fix any problems with fdc(4) though (as in "please please please"). ;-) > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
