Subject: Re: powerbook duo 250 needed for loan to get supported?
To: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
From: nick thompson <nicholas.thompson1@mchsi.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/28/2006 12:04:42
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Hauke Fath wrote:
> 
> They are. Every Mac since the IIx|IIcx|SE/30 models can read and write 1,44
> MB MFM floppies. The NetBSD floppy driver cannot, JFTR.
> 
> 
>>and if they are, what I
>>have at my disposal are Openbsd, Freebsd, and Gentoo GNU/Linux to write
>>an apple sytem 7.5 formatted floppy.
> 
> 
> Macintosh System 7.5 comes with the "PC Exchange" control panel which
> enables it to read and write 1440K and 720K MSDOS formatted floppies.
> 
> Alternatively, you could get a Nubus ethernet card for your DuoDock (it has
> two Nubus slots, as well as room for an internal harddisk), or attach an
> external cdrom drive.
> 
> 	hauke

Hauke,
 thank you so much for this information. this is one of the nicest lists

I have ever been on. thanks so much.

Also, I thought you (or perhaps someone else earlier in the thread)
mentioned that we do not have support for a nubus ethernet controller in
netbsd?? Is this true or not?

Nick

"all unix, all the time"

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