Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:25:06 +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: <199604101125.NAA13069@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199604091942.MAA05667@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 9, 96 12:42:34 pm
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > > But only for the first two drives. :-) > > I really do not see the problem with time penalizing people for old > hardware. It's not a question of penalizing, it's a matter of not excluding them from the game. > I can stuff a floppy in a drive on a DOS box, do a "dir" and have it > list the floppy contents *regardless* of the format. Unless it's formatted with 1 KB sectors. :) > And you guys are saying FreeBSD can never do this thing that DOS does > because it needs to have the device identified for a manual mount > instead of a mount as a result of automatic device identification. I didn't say FreeBSD could never do this. > For comparison, see the SCSI floppy drives ... Those i've seen so far are *terribly* slow in mounting a new floppy. During the time where a DG/UX machine with its SCSI-to-floppy bridge, or an SGI Indy with its floptical were checking the format, you've already copied an entire floppy in FreeBSD. I would hesitate to pick them as a good example of automagic format detection. -- 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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