As J Wunsch wrote ...
> Wilko Bulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I once programmed low-level FDC stuff under DOS, so I'm a bit
I under CP/M, that's why i wrote the floppy formatter for 386BSD. ;-)
> familiar with this... The difference between 1.44 and 2.88 Mb
> floppies is that the latter use 36 sectors per track
Wilko Bulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The BIOS will report a different value for the 2.88MB drives to the
> probe routines...
Actually one out of two possible different values (forgot the actual
once), depending on what BIOS you've got...
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As Wilko Bulte wrote ...
> As Warner Losh wrote ...
> > The BIOS will report a different value for the 2.88MB drives to the
> > probe routines... You may need to do some touchup there as well.
>
> As you seem to have used these 2.88 drives before: do I need to do something
> special when I inst
As Warner Losh wrote ...
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Oliver Fromme
>writes:
> : Beware, I have not actually tried this with FreeBSD, and there
> : might be bugs that prevent using 2.88 Mb floppies.
>
> The BIOS will report a different value for the 2.88MB drives to the
> probe routines...
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Oliver Fromme writes:
: Beware, I have not actually tried this with FreeBSD, and there
: might be bugs that prevent using 2.88 Mb floppies.
The BIOS will report a different value for the 2.88MB drives to the
probe routines... You may need to do some touchup there a
As Oliver Fromme wrote ...
> Wilko Bulte wrote in list.freebsd-hackers:
> > As Oliver Fromme wrote ...
> > > I once programmed low-level FDC stuff under DOS, so I'm a bit
> > > familiar with this... The difference between 1.44 and 2.88 Mb
> > > floppies is that the latter use 36 sectors per t
Wilko Bulte wrote in list.freebsd-hackers:
> As Oliver Fromme wrote ...
> > I once programmed low-level FDC stuff under DOS, so I'm a bit
> > familiar with this... The difference between 1.44 and 2.88 Mb
> > floppies is that the latter use 36 sectors per track and twice
> > the data rate (1
As Oliver Fromme wrote ...
> Wilko Bulte wrote in list.freebsd-hackers:
> > As Doug Rabson wrote ...
> > > On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > > static struct fd_type fd_types[NUMTYPES] =
> > > > {
> > > > { 21,2,0xFF,0x04,82,3444,1,FDC_500KBPS,2,0x0C,2 }, /* 1.72M in HD 3.5in */
>
Wilko Bulte wrote in list.freebsd-hackers:
> As Doug Rabson wrote ...
> > On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > static struct fd_type fd_types[NUMTYPES] =
> > > {
> > > { 21,2,0xFF,0x04,82,3444,1,FDC_500KBPS,2,0x0C,2 }, /* 1.72M in HD 3.5in */
> > > { 18,2,0xFF,0x1B,82,2952,1,FDC_500
As Doug Rabson wrote ...
> On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > static struct fd_ty
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> 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:
>
> static struct fd_type fd_types[NUMTYPES] =
> {
> { 21,2,0xFF,0
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