Re: accessing floppy drive
On Sat, 3 May 2003, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> On Fri, 2 May 2003 20:17:07 +0100
> "Matthew Wilcox" <willy@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 08:58:26PM +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
> > > On Friday 02 May 2003 02:38 pm, Kenneth Westelinck wrote:
> > > > Didn't someone in the list get it to work on a 712?
> > >
> > > AFAIK, this was a SCSI floppy drive. Those should work anyway.
> >
> > Not in the 712; think you're confused with the 715.
>
> FWIW, we got guys working on the 712's floppy here at ESIEE, and it
> turned out that there was "a buggy documentation for an even more buggy
> chip". Read: It seemed it would be hell a pain to get it to work.
>
> If more info is needed, I can ask the guys that were involved, about 2
> years ago iirc...
Nobody had any access to HP-UX sources or contacts at HP, to at least see
exactly what was wrong with the documentation and how HP-UX works around it?
--
Martin-Éric Racine
http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/
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