Subject: Re: floppies
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG, arnold@skeeve.atl.ga.us>
From: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/16/1995 17:50:14
> Am I to take the stuff on probing the floppies to mean that the floppies
> are now supported in NetBSD?  If so, I'll take a look at moving to it instead
> of SunOS.
> 

The driver is functional on machines with a 82072 chip.

> How can I tell, under SunOS, which of the two possible floppy chips I have, to
> know whether or not NetBSD will handle it? (Or can I tell...)
> 
I suppose SunOS can tell you, but I don't know how to turn the messages on
(maybe `boot vmunix -d').

-pk