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- In article <9312072225.AA03312@paxnet.com.au> Abeech@splat.paxnet.com.au writes:
- > 1. Is the internal DFx: drives supported? If
- > they are then what /dev/... are they?
-
- Not in the current version, and I don't know of any drivers in
- development. I would hope that anyone writing a floppy driver (or
- anything else) would write a message to the list so that someone else
- doesn't waste time duplicating the same work. Also, my personal wishes
- for a floppy driver:
-
- - Work in either Amiga or PC mode so that PC disks can
- also be used, with msdosfs (once its fixed to run on
- bigendian machines). PC mode should be selected by a
- different set of minor device numbers (0-3 Amiga, 4-7 PC).
-
- - Support HD floppies (now that I actually have one :->)
- HD support should not require differnet minor numbers,
- but be automatic with detection of the HD hole.
- (are the low-level programming details of HD floppy drives
- documented anywhere? I don't think the Hardware RKM
- covers them).
-
- > 2. Which /dev block files represents the internal
- > serial and parallel ports?
-
- There are no block devices for the serial and parallel ports, only
- character devices (since serial and parallel ports are naturally
- character-at-a-time devices).
-
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- Ty Sarna "Oh, I don't know *everything*. I don't
- tsarna@endicor.com even know how fish work." -- Joel, MST3K
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