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 Linux on PowerPC FAQ-O-Matic : Hardware Compatibility :
Why can't I read my floppy in MkLinux DR3? |
There is no floppy support for MkLinux as of 9/14/98.
--Jason....JJ jmott@auragen.com |
MkLinux supports floppies on PCI machines only, beginning in Nov. of1998. PDM support is in progress, but running into problems.
dgatwood@globegate.utm.edu
marsmail@globegate.utm.edu |
NO FLOPPY SUPPORT for my 7100!?!?!?!? This means I have no way to get data out of linux onto a real mac, and into the real world. I can't write to an HFS volume.
I guess I'll just have to screw around getting some sort of networking thing going.
bonadio@well.com |
Good freaking God! I spent the last week poking around the net, hanging out at IRC channels, and posting to the usenet trying to figure out why my freaking floppy wouldn't freaking mount! And then I see this? What the fuck? I purchased MKLinux instead of LinuxPPC because it supported my ancient NuBus machine--yet now I read this and find that floppies aren't supported under it? What the hell? Is there going to be floppy support in the future?!
sir_drake@micronet.net |
Not having the floppy is not the end of the world. There are a couple of things you can do to get around the problem. First of all you can mount an HFS volume (not HFS+) OR you can use LinuxDisk to read your ext2 partition from the MacOS (even for HFS+). Neither is as easy as sticking in a floppy and it is a shame that they haven't incorporated floppy access directly from mkLinux.
bsnell@shl.com |
Easiest thing to do is get a SCSI zip drive. if your scsi zip drive is, say, hdc then you can mount a Mac HFS Zip Disk by making a directory called /zip
You then insert the zip disk, and type the following command:
mount -t hfs /dev/hdc /zip
Works under MKLinux DR3, works under LinuxPPC, much better than a floppy 'cause it holds about 96MB of data.
I have floppy support under Linux, I have yet to take advantage of it :)
moonglue@141.com |
Pardon me- I'm tired. Your scsi zip drive wouldn't be hd-anything, it would be sdc (or sdd or sde... depending upon your scsi chain).
So, if your zip drive was sdc then you would mount it with:
mount -t hfs /dev/sdc /zip
Sorry for the confusion.
moonglue@141.com |
No it won't!
SCSI devices are allocated sdx where x is the SCSI ID!
SCSI cd drives are scdx where x is the ID.
This lack of a floppy seems somewhat familiar!! I guess that MkLinux runs well on an iMac!
Phil Quinney
philquinney@hotmail.com |
well, I hate to say it, but you are wrong.
scsi devices in linux are not allocated as sdx with x being the SCSI ID. if you have two scsi busses, and two hard drives, one on each bus, both with ID 1, then how do you access them? exactly.
linux scans each bus by order of detection, and assigns drive letter by order of detection as well. hard disks get a device name of sd[a-?] according to what order they were detected in. so the first bus gets completely scanned and assigned before the second. some other unices assign device names by scsi id, yes, but each device has the scsi bus number as well. this prevents the need for modifying the fstab if you add or remove a drive. if you add a hard disk drive to the first scsi bus on your system, you may need to modify your fstab as all the device letters will shift up for disks detected after that.
cds, tapes, and generic devices are similar, they all start with scd, st, sg (respectively) and have a number following (starting at 0) determining which of each they are in what order they were detected. they don't have letters becasue they don't have partitons, and dont need the numbers to specify partitions, smart, eh?
mike@_nospam_engr.uky.edu |
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What if I have a 68k Mac, not a PowerMac?