Re: Floppy from sparc on x86
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Rafael E. Herrera wrote: > I have tried before to use the one from an IPC without success. The last > responses I got > were: > > Matthew Haas wrote: > > > > On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Rafael E. Herrera wrote: > > > > > > Perhaps I didn't phrase the question right. How do I get the floppy to > > > work on a PC? I know of the 'eject' and 'floppycontrol'. Any comments? > > > > I heard from somewhere that Sun machines use the alternate ID (ie B: > > instead of A:--- they don't use the twist in the cable) and that you must > > plug the drive in before the twist in order to get it recognized as A: > > (I've never personally tried it, but I have heard that people have had > > success). > > Alain Knaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >I pulled a floppy drive from an old SUN IPC box and I'm trying to use it > > >in my PC. It has a motor that ejects the floppy and I'd like to use that > > >feature. I've tried to get info from the web about it, but have had no > > >luck. I also installed the fdutils package to use the floppycontrol > > >utility. > > > > > >I've tried several setting in the BIOS and in the floppy to get it to > > >work, no dice. If you have any pointers I'd be grateful. > > > Rafael > > > > For the moment, this feature is only supported for Linux on Sparc > > (Sparcstation usually come with floppy drives with an autoeject > > mechanism). Do you have any documentation with your drive, the name or > > number of the wire used to trigger the eject might be useful > > I think the last one was from the author of floppycontrol. If you get > it to work let me know and Alain, too. > > I got the IPC for $12 at the GoodWill. The funny thing is that the floppy > drive > (Sony MFD-17W-P1) sale for $85 refurbished at www.rapid-tech.com, isn't it > funny? HEH! I got my IPX probably from the exact same Goodwill last october. Was over there visiting a friend at CMU. (noting your deleted SIG) Bought it for $10 (there was a guy who was going to buy it just for the hard drive - until I told him I could put Linux on it), took it to CMU with my friend, and loaded it up. I'm using it as a testbed DHCP server right now. My floppy drive just died a few weeks ago; OpenPROM floppy diagnostics fail, won't boot, etc. I've been unable to get it working on a peeci either. I'm also considering sticking in a SCSI-interface LS-120. You can get them from Winstation (www.winstation.com I hear), and they're using some kind of low-profile SCSI->ATAPI protocol converter retrofitted onto the existing ATAPI drives. Also, they're supposed to be coming out with a 240MB model, so the 120's are at End of Life. I'm wondering if the IPX would be able to boot off a 1.44MB floppy in it as a SCSI device.
Re: Floppy from sparc on x86
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:03:36PM -0500, Rafael E. Herrera wrote: > I got the IPC for $12 at the GoodWill. The funny thing is that the > floppy drive (Sony MFD-17W-P1) sale for $85 refurbished at > www.rapid-tech.com, isn't it funny? Cruise eBay for a while -- a search for 'sparc floppy drive' returned several hits, though most were for complete systems. But, hey, when you can get a Sparc5 with a floppy drive for $1 plus shipping (Item 1202949006), it's certainly cheap enough. -- Mike Renfro / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Floppy from sparc on x86
I have tried before to use the one from an IPC without success. The last responses I got were: Matthew Haas wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Rafael E. Herrera wrote: > > > > Perhaps I didn't phrase the question right. How do I get the floppy to > > work on a PC? I know of the 'eject' and 'floppycontrol'. Any comments? > > I heard from somewhere that Sun machines use the alternate ID (ie B: > instead of A:--- they don't use the twist in the cable) and that you must > plug the drive in before the twist in order to get it recognized as A: > (I've never personally tried it, but I have heard that people have had > success). Alain Knaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I pulled a floppy drive from an old SUN IPC box and I'm trying to use it > >in my PC. It has a motor that ejects the floppy and I'd like to use that > >feature. I've tried to get info from the web about it, but have had no > >luck. I also installed the fdutils package to use the floppycontrol > >utility. > > > >I've tried several setting in the BIOS and in the floppy to get it to > >work, no dice. If you have any pointers I'd be grateful. > > Rafael > > For the moment, this feature is only supported for Linux on Sparc > (Sparcstation usually come with floppy drives with an autoeject > mechanism). Do you have any documentation with your drive, the name or > number of the wire used to trigger the eject might be useful I think the last one was from the author of floppycontrol. If you get it to work let me know and Alain, too. I got the IPC for $12 at the GoodWill. The funny thing is that the floppy drive (Sony MFD-17W-P1) sale for $85 refurbished at www.rapid-tech.com, isn't it funny? -- Rafael Herrera Laboratory for Computational Neuroscience University of Pittsburgh http://www.neuronet.pitt.edu/~raffo
Re: Floppy from sparc on x86
Has anyone figured out how to get the floppy out of a sparc to fully work on an x86, if so is there anything special I need to do to get it to work and eject. The extra one I have doesn't seem to work correctly. Chris B
