Subject: Re: floppy drives and NetBSD sparc...
To: netbsd help list <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Robert Dekelbaum <deker@Glue.umd.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/20/1995 10:40:31
On Thu, 19 Jan 1995, Chuck Cranor wrote:

>    NetBSD/sparc doesn't have a floppy device driver yet.   We need
> someone to write one.   From what I understand it uses the same
> chip as the PC, except that it has a very small FIFO or something
> so you have to be pretty quick in the interrupt routine.   Ejecting
> a disk is pretty easy I think, it uses a bit in the "auxreg" to do
> it.
>    If you are interested in writing this device driver Paul and
> I can try to help you...
> 
well, as much as I'd LOVE to do that, I really don't have the time (or 
expertise) for writing device drivers. Lokks like I'll have to wait for 
one to come around...thanks for the info...

rob

deker@glue.umd.edu  --  "I make love to the darkness."