QNX Neutrino microkernel 1.0 Floppy support help

Hello dear community,
I need help how to accsess floppy disk under QNX Neutrino microkernel 1.0 .
This version of QNX mikrokernel hasn’t driver devb-fdc, so somwhere I was
read that is possible use devb-eide with an LS-120. So does anybody know how
to use it? Thanks for all answers and advices.
Otto

Otto Mixa <ottomixa@email.cz> wrote:

Hello dear community,
I need help how to accsess floppy disk under QNX Neutrino microkernel 1.0 .
This version of QNX mikrokernel hasn’t driver devb-fdc, so somwhere I was
read that is possible use devb-eide with an LS-120. So does anybody know how
to use it? Thanks for all answers and advices.
Otto

With a ls120, you should have another hd entry under /fs.
On my system, I have two hard drives, and a ls120. The
ls120 shows up as /fs/hd2 . When I put a dinited/formatted
floppy in the drive, I do the following to mount it:

mount -t qnx4 /fs/hd2 /fd

for a dos floppy

mount -t dos /fs/hd2 /fd

For formatting, and such, my system has fdformat and mkdosfs.
If you are using an actual ls120 disk, I think you need to
use dinit.

Regards.

I received this via mail:

Thanks for your answer,
but QNX neutrino microkernel 1.0 haven’t got utility mount, so and I =
also find out=20
that it doesn’t support ls120 drive, there isn’t any driver for support =
this device.
So my solution is that I have to write device driver devb-fdc by myself. =
Or does anybody=20
know where I can find some floppy driver source code which I can use as =
sample…
( for example from QNX 4.xx)?
Thanks for all advices.

Otto

I would suggest contacting technical support, before going to
all that work, to see if you may obtain a driver from them.
I apologize for not being able to help you further.

Maybe someone else has a suggestion?

Regards.


“Derek Leach” <dleach@qnx.com> wrote in message =
news:<ar3f15$q0r$1@inn.qnx.com>…

Otto Mixa <> ottomixa@email.cz> > wrote:
Hello dear community,
I need help how to accsess floppy disk under QNX Neutrino =
microkernel 1.0 .
This version of QNX mikrokernel hasn’t driver devb-fdc, so somwhere =
I was
read that is possible use devb-eide with an LS-120. So does anybody =
know how
to use it? Thanks for all answers and advices.
Otto
=20
With a ls120, you should have another hd entry under /fs.
On my system, I have two hard drives, and a ls120. The
ls120 shows up as /fs/hd2 . When I put a dinited/formatted=20
floppy in the drive, I do the following to mount it:
=20
mount -t qnx4 /fs/hd2 /fd
=20
for a dos floppy
=20
mount -t dos /fs/hd2 /fd
=20
For formatting, and such, my system has fdformat and mkdosfs.
If you are using an actual ls120 disk, I think you need to
use dinit.
=20
Regards.

Derek Leach <dleach@qnx.com> wrote:

Otto Mixa <> ottomixa@email.cz> > wrote:
Hello dear community,
I need help how to accsess floppy disk under QNX Neutrino microkernel 1.0 .
This version of QNX mikrokernel hasn’t driver devb-fdc, so somwhere I was
read that is possible use devb-eide with an LS-120. So does anybody know how
to use it? Thanks for all answers and advices.
Otto

With a ls120, you should have another hd entry under /fs.
On my system, I have two hard drives, and a ls120. The
ls120 shows up as /fs/hd2 . When I put a dinited/formatted
floppy in the drive, I do the following to mount it:

mount -t qnx4 /fs/hd2 /fd

for a dos floppy

mount -t dos /fs/hd2 /fd

For formatting, and such, my system has fdformat and mkdosfs.
If you are using an actual ls120 disk, I think you need to
use dinit.

Regards.

Hello,

I think I can write it by myslef. But because I’m also trying use QNX 6.2NC
I know that its already support floppy disks.

And QNX neutrino microkernel 2 I think too. So I’m asking only for some kind
of example or sample how to write floppy device driver

for QNX neutrino microkernel 1.0. Because in official documentation there
isn’t quite informations which I can use.

And I’m really like open source…If somebody already wrote it, why I have
lost a time, I can only modified it to my purposes and I will share it to
next.

I think with this way can all operating systems grow up.

So can somebody send me some links or suggestion base on which I can write
floppy device driver.

Thanks

Otto

“Derek Leach” <dleach@qnx.com> wrote in message
news:araqk3$21f$1@inn.qnx.com

I received this via mail:

Thanks for your answer,
but QNX neutrino microkernel 1.0 haven’t got utility mount, so and I =
also find out=20
that it doesn’t support ls120 drive, there isn’t any driver for support =
this device.
So my solution is that I have to write device driver devb-fdc by myself.

Or does anybody=20
know where I can find some floppy driver source code which I can use as =
sample…
( for example from QNX 4.xx)?
Thanks for all advices.

Otto

I would suggest contacting technical support, before going to
all that work, to see if you may obtain a driver from them.
I apologize for not being able to help you further.

Maybe someone else has a suggestion?

Regards.


“Derek Leach” <> dleach@qnx.com> > wrote in message =
news:<ar3f15$q0r$> 1@inn.qnx.com> >…
Otto Mixa <> ottomixa@email.cz> > wrote:
Hello dear community,
I need help how to accsess floppy disk under QNX Neutrino =
microkernel 1.0 .
This version of QNX mikrokernel hasn’t driver devb-fdc, so somwhere =
I was
read that is possible use devb-eide with an LS-120. So does anybody =
know how
to use it? Thanks for all answers and advices.
Otto
=20
With a ls120, you should have another hd entry under /fs.
On my system, I have two hard drives, and a ls120. The
ls120 shows up as /fs/hd2 . When I put a dinited/formatted=20
floppy in the drive, I do the following to mount it:
=20
mount -t qnx4 /fs/hd2 /fd
=20
for a dos floppy
=20
mount -t dos /fs/hd2 /fd
=20
For formatting, and such, my system has fdformat and mkdosfs.
If you are using an actual ls120 disk, I think you need to
use dinit.
=20
Regards.


Derek Leach <> dleach@qnx.com> > wrote:
Otto Mixa <> ottomixa@email.cz> > wrote:
Hello dear community,
I need help how to accsess floppy disk under QNX Neutrino microkernel
1.0 .
This version of QNX mikrokernel hasn’t driver devb-fdc, so somwhere I
was
read that is possible use devb-eide with an LS-120. So does anybody
know how
to use it? Thanks for all answers and advices.
Otto

With a ls120, you should have another hd entry under /fs.
On my system, I have two hard drives, and a ls120. The
ls120 shows up as /fs/hd2 . When I put a dinited/formatted
floppy in the drive, I do the following to mount it:

mount -t qnx4 /fs/hd2 /fd

for a dos floppy

mount -t dos /fs/hd2 /fd

For formatting, and such, my system has fdformat and mkdosfs.
If you are using an actual ls120 disk, I think you need to
use dinit.

Regards.