On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 08:26:51PM -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote:
   > On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 11:08:09PM +0200, Richard Braun wrote:
   > > 
   > > All hardware related to floppy on most UltraSPARCs and on Ultra1 in
   > > particular is buggy. Don't even try to use it :-p.
   > 
   > tried, can't even use it at all since it's looking in dev/sun for fd.c which
   > doesn't exist there. ;)
   > 
   > seriously though, what is buggy about it, and what needs to be done to make it
   > not buggy?  i've got one here, i'm willing to do what work needs to be done to
   > make it function correctly, as that is something that would be incredibly
   > useful to me.  i *really* need to make NetBSD/i386 boot floppies and the floppy
   
   You can't. The *hardware* is buggy.

how so?  i've used it successfully from the prom or from solaris on
both U1 and U10 machines.

i've always planned to port our sparc fd.c to the two new fd types
("fd,two" and "fdthree"?? i forget now.) but haven't gotten around
to it ....