Subject: Re: Sorry, a few basic networking questions
To: David A. Gatwood <marsmail@globegate.utm.edu>
From: Dr. Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/31/1999 13:08:22
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, David A. Gatwood wrote:

> > On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Dr. Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > 
> > > NetBSD/mac68k doesn't support floppies. :-( SCSi zip drives will show up
> > > just like hard disks, though.
> 
> I wanted to ask about this.  A while back, there was some work on a driver
> that handled some of the older machines with 800k drives (I think that's
> right).  Recently, I've been doing work under the hood of MkLinux's floppy
> drvier, and fairly soon, we're going to run in to a wall, specifically
> Swim II support.  MkLinux's driver currently only supports Swim III.  Is
> anyone interested in working with MkLinux's driver and NetBSD's partial
> driver, to merge functionality?  What's the status of NetBSD's code?

Hauke will know more, but I think it only worked with 800K, and he ran
into documentation problems (lack there of) with the 1.44M functionality.

I think it'd be interesting, but I'm not sure how much I can do with it.
:-)

Take care,

Bill