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Re: Mounting floppy (or not) - Debian 2.2r5 for ppp (potato)



On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 08:55:07PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
 >This means one of two things:
 >  - If you built a custom kernel, you may have not built the SWIM3
 >    floppy controller driver into the kernel.
 >  - The system you're running Linux on may have a SWIM2 floppy
 >    controller (which is not yet supported) or another that I'm ignorant
 >    of.


 How can I tell what the floppy is?

Which Mac model are you running Linux on? If, as you claim, you're using
the stock kernel image from nubus-pmac.sf.net, that would seem to
indicate its floppy controller is something other than the SWIM3.

Mac PowerPC 8100/80


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