Re: Quadra 950 Floppy Drive

2003-02-28 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 08:28:38AM -0500, lrutledge wrote: > As I understand it the problem with writing a floppy driver is that the chip > was not designed for such things. So Woz did some awful hacks and wierd > logic > in MacOS to make it use the chip as a floppy controller. So far no one h

RE: Quadra 950 Floppy Drive

2003-02-28 Thread lrutledge
Howdy, As I understand it the problem with writing a floppy driver is that the chip was not designed for such things. So Woz did some awful hacks and wierd logic in MacOS to make it use the chip as a floppy controller. So far no one has been able to work out the magic. Apple released the chi

Re: Quadra 950 Floppy Drive

2003-02-27 Thread Carsten Neumann
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Ray Knight wrote: > Sorry I was warning against the use of the -A option for updating as > linux-2_2 is a branch and you'd end up with the HEAD which is 2.4 and > obsolete in that repository. > > For 2.2 code: > CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/linux-mac68k > > Ac

Re: Quadra 950 Floppy Drive

2003-02-27 Thread Ray Knight
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 20:51, Hank wrote: > > > > > >I applied your patch to the 2.2.22 source on sourceforge. We're at 2.2.23 > >on sourceforge now so getting the latest 2.2 source should include your > >patch to the floppy driver. I was able to get my IIfx to eject, but I seem > >to recall it

Re: Quadra 950 Floppy Drive

2003-02-27 Thread Ray Knight
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 12:19, Carsten Neumann wrote: > On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Ray Knight wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 22:29, Carsten Neumann wrote: > > > On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I applied your patch to the 2.2.22 source on sourceforge. We're at > > > > 2.2.23 on sou

Re: Quadra 950 Floppy Drive

2003-02-26 Thread Carsten Neumann
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Ray Knight wrote: > On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 22:29, Carsten Neumann wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I applied your patch to the 2.2.22 source on sourceforge. We're at > > > 2.2.23 on sourceforge now so getting the latest 2.2 source should include

Re: Quadra 950 Floppy Drive

2003-02-26 Thread Ray Knight
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 22:29, Carsten Neumann wrote: > On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I applied your patch to the 2.2.22 source on sourceforge. We're at 2.2.23 > > on sourceforge now so getting the latest 2.2 source should include your > > patch to the floppy driver. I was abl

Re: Quadra 950 Floppy Drive

2003-02-25 Thread Carsten Neumann
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I applied your patch to the 2.2.22 source on sourceforge. We're at 2.2.23 on > sourceforge now so getting the latest 2.2 source should include your patch to > the floppy driver. I was able to get my IIfx to eject, but I seem to recall > it failed

Re: Quadra 950 Floppy Drive

2003-02-25 Thread Hank
I applied your patch to the 2.2.22 source on sourceforge. We're at 2.2.23 on sourceforge now so getting the latest 2.2 source should include your patch to the floppy driver. I was able to get my IIfx to eject, but I seem to recall it failed on my Q950. Ray Well, I guess you don't need to make

Re: Quadra 950 Floppy Drive

2003-02-25 Thread audilvr
On 25 Feb 2003, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 04:36:34AM +0100, > Carsten Neumann wrote: > > isn't the hardware very similar to the one > > in the IIfx? > > Yes, it's functionally identical. The chips > are just at a different address, but that's > already in the driver. > > > On W

Re: Quadra 950 Floppy Drive

2003-02-25 Thread Brad Boyer
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 04:36:34AM +0100, Carsten Neumann wrote: > isn't the hardware very similar to the one in the IIfx? Yes, it's functionally identical. The chips are just at a different address, but that's already in the driver. > On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Hank wrote: > > I see that floppy suppor

Re: Quadra 950 Floppy Drive

2003-02-25 Thread Alfred G. de Wijn
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 04:36:34AM +0100, Carsten Neumann wrote: > isn't the hardware very similar to the one in the IIfx? Yes, there is. In fact, if my mind hasn't deserted me, the driver also recognises those disk drives, and tries to do something useful with them. I played with it quite some

Re: Quadra 950 Floppy Drive

2003-02-24 Thread Carsten Neumann
Hi all, isn't the hardware very similar to the one in the IIfx? Greetings, Carsten On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Hank wrote: > Hi! > > I see that floppy support has been built into the patched 2.2.20 kernel. > dmesg | grep -i fdhdreturns the following: > SWIM-IOP: drive 0 is an FDHD (ex

Quadra 950 Floppy Drive

2003-02-24 Thread Hank
Hi! I see that floppy support has been built into the patched 2.2.20 kernel. dmesg | grep -i fdhdreturns the following: SWIM-IOP: drive 0 is an FDHD (ext, floppy, removable, primary) I'm not able to find any device for this in the /dev directory. Most likely because there isn't one. Is ther