Subject: Re: FLOPPY and IWM was Re: mounting HFS disks
To: Riccardo Mottola <rmottola@spm.it>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/28/1999 23:38:46
At 0:07 Uhr +0200 28.06.1999, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
>>Second, do you per chance have a vanilla Macintosh II that is IWM equipped,
>>i.e. _without_ the FDHD upgrade? From the little documentation that I have
>>about Apple's floppy disk controllers I suspect that there are slight
>>differences between some of the IWM's register bits and those of the SWIM
>>in IWM mode. It would be nice if this could be clarified.
>mine has two FDHD disks, although i don't know what exactly was upgraded.
>I got the box used and was just happy to have 1.4 disks. the thing
>reports IWN though, not SWIM.
So you're lucky and I am not... no test case. The driver says "iwm" because
it uses the iwm compatibility mode of the SWIM.
hauke
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