Subject: Re: Configuring the floppies
To: None <port-amiga@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Guenther Grau <s_grau@ira.uka.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 01/23/1997 10:57:35
Hi Ignatios,
> Background (by myself):
>
> "Real" Commodore high density floppies should be auto-detected... the
> two things C= added to the floppy interface was a) half rotation at
> same data speed for high density floppies and b) a protocol to detect
> the floppy type. To my knowledge (but I might be wrong) our driver
> does, or at least, should use it.
Hmm, if I remember correctly, it only detects it, if there is an actual
HD floppy in the drive during the probe/boot phase. Dunno if it needs
to be a ADos or an MS-DOS floppy, though.
Guenther