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Date:      Sun, 7 Apr 1996 17:34:58 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, terry@lambert.org
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject:   Re: devfs questions
Message-ID:  <199604070734.RAA00643@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>Most 3.5" floppies support change notificatio, if we fix what Bruce
>noted the other day regarding IDE/EIDE controller port address
>conflicts and handling IDE/EIDE controller problems.

It's not a problem because splbio() locking is coarse-grained.

>Slicing floppies is obnoxious anyway.

It's good for debugging.  Many forms of hardware braindamage are
represented in the floppy device.

Bruce



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