As J Wunsch wrote ...
> Wilko Bulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Just having installed a 2.88Mb floppy drive in one of my axp boxes
> > I wonder if FreeBSD can do 2.88Mb floppy disks. From the looks
> > of the contents of /sys/i386/isa/fd.c:
> ....
> > it appears it cannot.
>
> It cannot. I once tried to hack support for 2.88 MB into the existing
> driver, but eventually gave up. The driver needs a complete rewrite
> in order to do this (or some royally painful hackups in order to
> accomodate for the differing FDC clock frequencies, wrt. seek timing
> etc.).
>
> Once i'm retired, i promise to rewrite that driver. :-)
Point taken. Project shelved ;-)
It was triggered by the size of boot.flp for Alpha and the
availability of a couple of 2.88Mb drives. Never mind :)
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