On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Brad Boyer wrote:
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.
Laurent Vivier wrote swim_driver and committed it to the 2.2 branch on
sourceforge 3 years ago. I believe it supports all m68k macs, other than
those models covered by the swim_iop driver.
http://linux-mac68k.cvs.sourceforge.net/linux-mac68k/linux-mac68k/drivers/block/?pathrev=linux-2_2
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.
Yes. The swim_iop driver was merged in v2.3 but it was removed again as of
v2.6.20.
Finn
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
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