Subject: Re: Mounting Floppies
To: <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew Weiss <ajwdsp@cloud9.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/15/2001 04:06:37
On Friday, September 14, 2001, at 05:11 PM, Dave Huang wrote:

>
> Well, you're still not using the block device, for one thing... but
> also, floppy support is limited to 800K DSDD floppies. Most people don't
> put MSDOS filesystems on those, so I suspect you're trying to mount a
> high density 1.44MB floppy. That won't work...

I am just coming back to 68K OS's and last I heard, the 800K floppy was 
the difficult item to support... at least when doing Mac emulation on a 
PC since the drive is variable speed and almost impossible to 
support. ... I thought FDHD drives did indeed work, however.

I guess I'm mistaken.

Andrew