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- From: fischer@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (franz fischer)
- Subject: 2.88 MB floppy disk on Rx3230?
- Keywords: 2.88 MB, floppy, diskette, controller, intel, 82072
- Sender: news@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (USENET Newssystem)
- Organization: Lehrstuhl fuer Prozessrechner, TU Muenchen (Germany)
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 11:35:56 GMT
- Message-ID: <fischer.712582556@lpr.lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
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- Hi there!
-
- Has anybody experience in putting a 2.88 MB floppy disk drive on a Magnum
- workstation RS3230? The Machine has an Intel 82072 floppy disk controller
- and the device driver in the kernel currently supports 720 kB and 1.44 MB
- densities. The parameters for these modes are kept in one of the kernel
- configuration tables (/usr/src/uts/mips/master.d/fl: fldisktypes[] = {...}).
-
- My questions are:
- - does the Intel 82072 support 2.88 MB drives?
- - does the RS3230 hardware support this?
-
- If so, I could add an entry to fldisktypes[], specifying the apropriate
- parameters for a 2.88 MB drive, generate a new kernel, boot it and it should
- work...?
-
- Any help and recommendations (via e-mail or news) appreciated!
- Thanks
- franz
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- Franz G. Fischer Tel.: +49-89-381619-26
- Lehrstuhl fuer Prozessrechner Fax.: +49-89-381619-60
- Technische Universitaet Muenchen, D-8000 Muenchen 40, Germany
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