Subject: Re: floppy use && macbsd, was: ppp setup
To: Roger Fischer <rogerf1@mac.com>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/01/2000 21:02:17
At 6:52 Uhr +0200 1.4.2000, Roger Fischer wrote:
>I still haven't tried the floppy.  I understand that it only does 800k,
>but does it matter if the hardware is a 1.4M/800k drive, or do you
>need an older 800k only?  Hmmm, I'm gonna have to play with that a bit.

The drive doesn't matter, i.e. you could get an external 800k drive and use
that as well as you internal 1440k superdrive.

The media matters: You have to use 800k disks that are pre-formatted in
MacOS. No formatting support in the NetBSD driver yet, although that would
not be too hard to add.

	hauke



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