From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 22 07:49:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA00467 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 07:49:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from tokyonet-entrance.astec.co.jp (tokyonet-entrance.astec.co.jp [202.239.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA00443 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 07:49:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamada@astec.co.jp) Received: from amont.astec.co.jp (amont.astec.co.jp [172.20.10.1]) by tokyonet-entrance.astec.co.jp (8.8.8+2.7Wbeta7/3.6W-astecMX2.3) with ESMTP id AAA21946; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 00:30:31 +0900 (JST) Received: from stone.astec.co.jp (stone.astec.co.jp [172.20.10.23]) by amont.astec.co.jp (8.7.6/3.6Wbeta5-astecMX2.4) with ESMTP id AAA14246; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 00:30:44 +0900 (JST) Received: (from hamada@localhost) by stone.astec.co.jp (8.8.5/3.5W-solaris1-1.2) id AAA21964; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 00:30:29 +0900 (JST) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG CC: The Classiest Man Alive Subject: Re: ATAPI LS-120 driver for 3.0-971208-SNAP References: From: HAMADA Naoki Date: 23 Dec 1997 00:30:27 +0900 In-Reply-To: The Classiest Man Alive's message of 22 Dec 1997 15:23:27 -0000 Message-ID: Lines: 12 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The Classiest Man Alive writes: > : One significant defect in your driver is that you do not support > : slices. This makes it impossible to use the driver for things like Zip > : disks which come partitioned like harddisks. > Does the LS-120 drive support the concept of slices or partitions? Does > it work okay under FreeBSD with the standard 1.44 MB floppy? The LS-120 drive never support slices, because it is only a floppy drive. So supporting slices on the LS-120 drive makes no sense nether you use MS Windows et al. nor FreeBSD. - nao