Re: Linux IEEE-488 (GPIB) cards?

Michael Krause (m.krause@tu-harburg.de)
Tue, 7 Jul 1998 18:08:19 +0200 (CEST)


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.

-- 
michael krause [aka raw style / lego] - http://ms.demo.org/rst/

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