Subject: Fwd: Re: [X-Unix] ANNC: Darwin SWIM3 Floppy Driver v0.95
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Randy Beaudreault <maccult@pacbell.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/02/2002 10:13:58
>>Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 19:15:28 -0700 (PDT)
>>From: "David A. Gatwood" <dgatwood@gatwood.net>
>>Subject: [X-Unix] ANNC: Darwin SWIM3 Floppy Driver v0.95
>>Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1020601191503.8191E-100000@gatwood.net>
>>
>>I'm making a blatant announcement for this everywhere I can because this
>>update fixes a nasty data corruption bug.  It also should improve
>>performance in a lot of cases, as it fixes a bunch of timing bugs that
>>used to require re-reading the disk over and over....
>>
>>There are some other nice features if you know how to get to them, like
>>low-level format support (MFM only for the moment due to bugs in the GCR
>>track cache setup code), but since they're kind of early alpha, I'm not
>>promoting them....  :-)
>>
>>As always it's available at http://darwin-development.org
>>
>>
>>Later,
>>David
>>
>>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>David A. Gatwood                                dgatwood@gatwood.net
>>Developer Docs Writer                             dgatwood@apple.com
>>Apple Computer                                  dgatwood@mklinux.org
>>
>>                     Check out my weekly web comic:
>>                      http://www.techmagazine.org

I just read this on the OS X Unix list and thought this would be of 
interest here with all the 68k floppies having no access and this 
being a driver for the SWIM3 floppy chip.  Is the SWIM3 on 68k Macs 
or just IWM?
-- 
Randy

OS X - UNIX for the rest of us
NetBSD - Catch the Power!