Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Jul 1998 19:18:29 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Linux IEEE-488 (GPIB) cards? |
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On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Michael Krause wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote: > > Back for the serial variant of IEEE-488 - since I'm hacking Linux I'm > > tempted to brew some interface to allow usage of a 1541 disk drive with > > an ordinary parallel port or similar. Of course also driver software > > is required. Something like that has already been published in the > > German ``Amiga Magazin'', issue 5/1988, if memory serves right. Is > > something like that already available? > > > > (If people are wondering why I would want something like that - the old > > floppies are dying, they want to be backuped onto something more reliable > > than floppies.) > > http://ms.demo.org/rst/cwfloppy.html > > contains a link to the Catweasel home page, a floppy controller which > can read (theoretically) all disks. The Linux driver only supports > Amiga and IBM disks as of yet, but will be expanded soon.
Binary only, as the page mentions.
What a pity you're not allowed to release the sources. People keep on bugging me for Linux/m68k support for the Amiga version since I wrote the Linux/m68k support for the IDE ports on the Catweasel (no, I don't have a Catweasel).
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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