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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


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