From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 9 17:37:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 812C237B718 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 17:37:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.11.2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f2A1aia28014; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 20:36:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <200103100136.f2A1aia28014@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: Josef Karthauser , Poul-Henning Kamp , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Image-URL: http://www.transsys.com/louie/images/louie-mail.jpg From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: howto access an oddly shaped partition on a floppy ? References: <200103100133.CAA56168@info.iet.unipi.it> In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 10 Mar 2001 02:33:51 +0100." <200103100133.CAA56168@info.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 20:36:44 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. Depending on the shape of the files you need to have on the disk, you could split this between two FreeBSD partitions (/dev/fd0a and /dev/fd0d or something), with the second partition being the bizzaro extra sectors. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message