Re: HD Floppy Drives

["Georges Heinesch" <geohei-ml%geohei.lu@localhost>]

Quoting Petri Koistinen (14-Jun-01 07:06:30):

> On 13 Jun 2001, Georges Heinesch wrote:

>> Hi.
>> 
>> Does NetBSD 1.5 support DD/HD floppy drivers?

> I don't know about drivers, but aleast floppy drives are supported:
> "Amiga floppy drives with Amiga (880kB/1760kB) and IBM (720kB/1440
> kB) block encoding." ;-)

Typo ... "drivers" should have been "drives" ... sorry!

> As it says on http://www.fi.netbsd.org/Ports/amiga/ page.
> Remember that if you want to use HD floppies, you must have HD
> floppy in disk drive while booting or drive is identified as DD
> drive.

Ok, when doing so, msdos (FAT) HD disks can still not be mounted,
while the same HD FAT disk is read without any problem on a
NetBSD/i386 machine.

Does the combination HD/msdos work for NetBSD/amiga?
(the drive itself is of course HD capable)

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