At 20:08 Uhr +0100 17.02.1998, T. Sean \(Theo\) Schulze wrote:
>On 2/17/98 18:39, Colin Wood at cwood@ichips.intel.com wrote:
>
>>no, they are not supported.  someone (hauke fath?) was working on an lkm
>>which sort of supported reading from the older 800k floppy drives, but no
>>one had done any work (that i know of) to support the newer fdhd floppy
>>drives.

Yep. Still on hold, the project, until I find a free evening or five.  8|

>>the mac floppies aren't very netbsd friendly, anyway, since they
>>require polling in such a way that multi-tasking is pretty much put on
>>hold (kinda like the way that everything freezes under macos when you
>>insert a floppy).

Doesn't matter much. You wouldn't page to a floppy.

>I think it is kind of interesting (and perhaps telling) that even with
>Apple's support, as of DR2.1, MkLiniux doesn't have floopy support either.

I suppose that's more a question of priorities than of technical obstacles.
>From what I have seen in the Linux-pmac IWM III driver sources, PowerMacs
use DMA for floppy access whereas on (most) 68k Macs we have to massage
every single byte.

	hauke


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