Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 13:08:25 +0300 From: Aleksander Matveev <timon@timon.net.nz> To: Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r296590 - in head/sys: dev/fdc sys Message-ID: <56E14799.7070205@timon.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <201603100036.u2A0ad3i028284@repo.freebsd.org> References: <201603100036.u2A0ad3i028284@repo.freebsd.org>
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On 10/03/2016 03:36, Warner Losh wrote: > Author: imp > Date: Thu Mar 10 00:36:38 2016 > New Revision: 296590 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/296590 > > Log: > Add raw RX-50 support. These are 400k single sided disks with 80 > tracks and 10 sectors per track. More exotic RX-50 types not > supported, nor is there support for de-interleaving the first two > tracks where the physical sectors are 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9, but they > should be interpreted as 0 5 1 6 2 7 3 8 4 9. This is purely to read > the media with dd. The FAT that's on these disks won't work with > msdosfs anyway. > A week ago I sorted some stuff and found my old "Western Digital 93044-a" 43.2 MiB IDE HDD. Unfortunately, I couldn't read it under FreeBSD because HDD doesn't support LBA addressing and FreeBSD doesn't support CHS anymore. At first I thought that this is right to drop support of such old hardware, but after this commit may be I should write a patch that brings back CHS-addressing support :) -- Aleksandr Matveev
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