Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 03:28:49 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: devfs questions Message-ID: <199604070128.DAA15372@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199604070104.SAA28843@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 6, 96 06:04:36 pm
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > > I don't really like the current way either. The fd0.foo entries > > should be symlinks to `generic' fd0a ... fd0z entries, created by > > the rc mechanism instead of by devfs. > > Bletch. The slices should not be there. You are imposing a naming > convention that isn't very flexible an which we would then have > to live with forever. Which slices? I'm simply implying some form of subdevices. The actual meaning of them is run-time selectable. It is already now, there's a mostly unused utility fdcontrol(8), you can use it to make your fd0.1720 device node accept 184 KB floppies instead. :-) All i want is generic names, and leave it to userland to find convenient names for it. Format autodetection will never work for all 5E+23 different floppy formats that are available in the world. > Better to force "changedisk" and suggest people buy good floppy > drives This is unrelated. Changelin support is unavailable for exotic drives, and i think it's also unavailable for drives 2 and 3. I agree that it should be used if it is there. (Didn't i say the floppy driver needs a rewrite? :-) > The first thing to do is to cause 0x370 referencing code to be added > to the floppy driver so that this is not a problem for 95% of all 3.5" > disks. There's not much different between modern 3.5in and 5.25in drives. All AT drives are supposed to support changeline logic, and systems like OS/2 do break if the drives are broken. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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