Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 02:33:51 +0100 (CET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: howto access an oddly shaped partition on a floppy ? Message-ID: <200103100133.CAA56168@info.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <200103092309.f29N9na27176@whizzo.transsys.com> from "Louis A. Mamakos" at "Mar 9, 2001 06:09:49 pm"
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> So how about a options flag on the floppy driver which translates > block addresses beyond 1440K into the "extra" sectors? I don't > know that there's a "clean" way insert that into the driver, just > glancing at the code.. that is another possibility, yes. But it still remains the challenge of controlling how the filesystem code allocates blocks to make sure that the first things you write really end up into the "initial" part of the disk so the bios can boot from it. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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