In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hellmuth Michaelis writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> I have a bunch of 8" floppies I need to try to recover contents >> from, is there anybody out there who has a 8" drive they'd be willing >> to part with for $$ ? > >Sorry, but i'm in the same boat. I have an old Hewlett-Packard HPIB 8" >Floppydrive here and i wonder if it is possible to connect (and access) >it with one of those supported GPIB cards or directly by connecting it >to a PC floppy controller ? Has anybody experience with this ?
If you have a NEC7210 based GPIB card, I have a rudimentary userland driver for it. I use it for some HP boxes when I fiddle my timekeeping gadgets. I don't know about accessing floppies over GPIB (well, I _do_ know about the non-standard way Commodore did it but...) but if you can find the docs you can probably code it up pretty easily. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
