At 9:48 Uhr +0200 25.06.1999, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

>besides, i have a Mac][ and i see that at startup both flobby drives are
>recognized, if i put in a 800k (mac) floppy it even get recognized.
>how do i use flopies thereafter?
>can i use Mac floppies?
>can i format a floppy to unix file system? how?

Hah! A test person!  ;)

First, good to hear that the iwm driver supports the second drive. No
particular reason why it shouldn't, just I had no external drive to test
the code with.

Second, do you per chance have a vanilla Macintosh II that is IWM equipped,
i.e. _without_ the FDHD upgrade? From the little documentation that I have
about Apple's floppy disk controllers I suspect that there are slight
differences between some of the IWM's register bits and those of the SWIM
in IWM mode. It would be nice if this could be clarified.

Coming to your questions... the mac68k floppy driver currently only
supports 800k Macintosh GCR formatted disks. "Low-level" formatting those
disks is not rocket science, but I haven't come around to writing the code,
so for now you have to format the disks in MacOS.

Then, in NetBSD/mac68k, insert the disk, become root and say 'newfs
/dev/rfd0a' (or 'rfd1a', as you have two floppy drives), then 'mount
/dev/fd0a /mnt'.

	hauke


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