Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:53:08 -0600 (MDT)
From: "M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Floppy drive and Linux

In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
            John Musielewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: I am not running Linux. I am interested in it because I want to port
: it over to eCs. eCs doesn't have a floppy driver for the Libretto and
: its a real pain to run without a floppy. Its difficult to install the
: operating system and programs.

In that case, all you really need to know is that you have to PIO the
data in, rather than DMA.  There's an additional data port for this
purpose.  Other than that, it is a standard PC floppy controller.

FreeBSD also supports this floppy, as does NetBSD.  Might be another
place to look for data on the thing.

Warner



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