Re: Mounting 610 floppy drive
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Branden Robinson wrote:
> As I understand it, floppy drives simply aren't supported under Linux on
> m68k Macs.
>
> Apple apparently won't release the programming specs. There's some
> might valuable intellectual property there; gotta hold onto that stuff.
> God forbid someone other than Apple figure out how to drive the stepper
> motor on a double- or high-density floppy drive controller.
Note that this goes for *all* Mac68k-specific hardware, not just the
floppy drives. Every bit of hardware-specific code you're using when
running Linux/mac68k is reverse engineered.
Understandably, stuff like sound support and floppy drive support get a
lower priority than "making sure the system doesn't hang when accessing
two harddisks at once" and the like ;-)
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