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to: Jasen Betts
from: Pascal Schmidt
date: 2003-12-13 01:58:56
subject: Re: Knoppix

Hi Jasen! :-)

 JB> I wonder If there's a way to interface a macintosh floppy drive (they 
 JB> have a motorised eject meechnism)  Hmmm, I could stick a mac floppy 
 JB> controller (if they are available separate)
I think Mac floppy controllers are always integrated into the motherboard chipset.

 JB> on an ISA card and compile in the apropriate
 JB> hardware drivers but if I could use a funky cable to hook it to a 
 JB> regular floppy controller it'd be better.
This would still require hacking the floppy driver to be able to even send
the eject command to the drive.

Ciao
Pascal

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