Re: Linux IEEE-488 (GPIB) cards?
Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Tue, 7 Jul 1998 19:18:29 +0200 (CEST)
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
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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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