[haiku-development] Re: Future Haiku Features
- From: PulkoMandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:47:38 +0200
> Most modern motherboards still support floppy drives...
But I only have a laptop computer :)
> Don't most BIOS' emulate legacy floppy when a USB floppy drive is
> attached? Or, does this not matter?
They allow sector-based access trough BIOS routines. We can't use BIOS
calls except at early boot stages, and this does not allow things like
formatting a disk. To do that you have to use a very different command
set. USB Floppy is a variation on usb mass storage, while for a real
floppy drive you have to send commands to the FDC chip (floppy disk
controller).
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> - Urias
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