Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 10:01:01 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: floppy format detection [was Re: devfs questions] Message-ID: <199604090801.KAA08669@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <m0u6SJm-000CB9C@nemesis.lonestar.org> from "Frank Durda IV" at Apr 8, 96 08:34:00 pm
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As Frank Durda IV wrote: > IMO, the tradeoff between full automatic format detection, semi-automatic > detection (as in the 16/6000) and manual specification, is a question of > driver complexity plus how much delay you are willing to experience on each > open of the drive, plus whether you can determine certain things without > damage to the hardware. I personally prefer having an semi-automatic > dev plus manual devs or an ioctl available for explicit settings. I fully agree with you here. That's why i would like to have a part of the minor number available for several densities, where only density 0 is autodetect. > In the PC/AT world, the CMOS provides the "hints" needed to perform > semi-automatic operations and get the test time down to an > acceptable level. But only for the first two drives. :-) -- 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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