Re: Macintosh External Floppy Drive

[Johan Ugander <johan@ugander.com>]

Well, i'm not that good, but I won't step down from the challenge....

how does one go about writing a kernel driver? What language are we 
talking here? Put it this way: I have no idea how to do it, but I 
want to learn.

I sense its the proper attitude to have in this environment. :)

/johan ugander


>  > How do I get an old external floppy drive (connected to the disk
> >  port) to mount under debain-68k ?
>
> By first writing a Linux kernel driver for Mac floppy drives. After this,
> it should be a piece of cake:
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy would mount a DOS format floppy.
>
> To ask for the Mac floppy interface specs, e-mail leadership@apple.com.
>
> 	Michael

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