From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 10 05:21:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA29895 for current-outgoing; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 05:21:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA29890 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 05:21:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id OAA17617 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 14:21:09 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id OAA04562 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 14:21:09 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id NAA13069 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:25:07 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604101125.NAA13069@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: floppy format detection [was Re: devfs questions] To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:25:06 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <199604091942.MAA05667@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 9, 96 12:42:34 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)