From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 10 13:19:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA04971 for current-outgoing; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:19:06 -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 NAA04944 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 13:18:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA09334 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 22:18:45 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA04679 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 22:18:44 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id VAA00697 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 21:15:10 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604101915.VAA00697@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 21:15:10 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Frank Durda IV" at Apr 9, 96 09:45:00 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 Frank Durda IV wrote: > I personally would like having both floppy ID mechanisms available - > automatic and completely manual format selection. I would probably use > the automatic until I came across the odd diskette it could not handle, > and then the manual selection would come into play. TMO. I also think so. In case _I_ will be the person who ever rewrites the floppy driver :), be assured that it will be this way. -- 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. ;-)