On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 06:36:14AM -0700, J Silverman wrote:
I tried setting up my system so I can use the floppy drive to copy the dmesg. However, I'm not positive that Linux is seeing the floppy drive. I made a device node (major 2, minor 0) for the drive and tried to mount the disk and eject the disk, but it says it's invalid. Is the major/minor numbers different on m68k macs?
We currently don't have a driver for any m68k mac floppy drive in the tree, so it's expected to not work. At one point, someone posted a proposed driver that worked in at least some systems, but I don't think it ever got finished or included. There are several different chipsets to support to catch every m68k Mac. I think the only driver that got into the tree was the one for the IIfx and Q900/Q950 (swim_iop), but it didn't actually work in any real sense. It could detect the drives and the disk format, and I fixed it to be able to eject. I could never get it to read or write, and I haven't seen JMT (the original author) on the list in quite some time. I think it got removed after people realized it never worked. It doesn't appear to be in the official tree. I have the documentation for the IIfx hardware, but not the time to fix it. Brad Boyer flar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
