Re: Mounting 610 floppy drive
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Bruce ONeel wrote:
[quotes rearranged]
> Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Harold Martin wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I am trying to mount my Centris/Quardra 610's floppy drive. I've tried
> > > /dev/fd0 and friends but it doesn't recognize the drive. And yes, I
> > > checked to make sure a floppy was actually in the drive:)
> >
> > Did you try to write the kernel module? ;-)
> >
> > There's no support for Mac floppy drives, for the simple reason that this
> > will require reverse engineering the MacOS driver, and that noone with the
> > required time and skills ever tried...
>
> There has been some talk on the mac68k netbsd lists about this
> recently. Some docs have escaped from the mothership, on
> paper, with the requirement that they be shared with all
> interested OSes.
>
> If you're interested in doing the kernel module go ask on
> port-mac68k@netbsd.org and good luck!
This should've gone to the kernel developers, probably. Cc set
accordingly.
linux-mac68k: did you guys know about this yet? If not, there you go.
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