Subject: Re: USB Floppy support
To: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: current-users
Date: 04/09/2005 07:45:00
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On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:28:21PM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> Quick question:  I've got a USB floppy drive and was looking through
> the GENERIC config files.  The only thing that comes close is umass,
> but I was wondering if that would work, since the only things that
> seem to attach to a umass is a scsibus or a wd.

Yah, they show up as sd@scsibus@umass, and are basically
indistinguishable from all the other flash or hard disk storage
widgets.

I'm not sure how you go about doing floppy-specific things, like
sector formatting; perhaps you could try using the scsictl format
ioctls?

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Dan.
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