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From: hitt@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Daniel Hitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: drivers for floppy drives
Summary: (naive) questions about floppy disk drivers
Keywords: drivers, floppy
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.224130.9100@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 21 Dec 90 22:41:30 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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Where are there examples for writing device drivers, particularly
for controlling 3.5" floppy disk drives?

Would it be possible to write a driver for the NeXT floppy disk drive
which read Macintosh or Amiga formatted disks?

If one wrote a program which did this, would it have to be run as
root?

dan