I have tried before to use the one from an IPC without success. The last responses I got were:
Matthew Haas wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Rafael E. Herrera wrote: > > > > Perhaps I didn't phrase the question right. How do I get the floppy to > > work on a PC? I know of the 'eject' and 'floppycontrol'. Any comments? > > I heard from somewhere that Sun machines use the alternate ID (ie B: > instead of A:--- they don't use the twist in the cable) and that you must > plug the drive in before the twist in order to get it recognized as A: > (I've never personally tried it, but I have heard that people have had > success). Alain Knaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I pulled a floppy drive from an old SUN IPC box and I'm trying to use it > >in my PC. It has a motor that ejects the floppy and I'd like to use that > >feature. I've tried to get info from the web about it, but have had no > >luck. I also installed the fdutils package to use the floppycontrol > >utility. > > > >I've tried several setting in the BIOS and in the floppy to get it to > >work, no dice. If you have any pointers I'd be grateful. > > Rafael > > For the moment, this feature is only supported for Linux on Sparc > (Sparcstation usually come with floppy drives with an autoeject > mechanism). Do you have any documentation with your drive, the name or > number of the wire used to trigger the eject might be useful I think the last one was from the author of floppycontrol. If you get it to work let me know and Alain, too. I got the IPC for $12 at the GoodWill. The funny thing is that the floppy drive (Sony MFD-17W-P1) sale for $85 refurbished at www.rapid-tech.com, isn't it funny? -- Rafael Herrera Laboratory for Computational Neuroscience University of Pittsburgh http://www.neuronet.pitt.edu/~raffo
