Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 03:23:33 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: devfs questions Message-ID: <199604070123.DAA15356@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199604070045.RAA28784@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 6, 96 05:45:20 pm
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > Frankly, other than formatting (which can damn well take a parameter > for it), there is really no need to have media density encoded in device > names. If DOS can deal with format detection, we can damn well do the > same. There is no such thing as "A:" and "A.1440:", etc.. DOS cannot really deal with format detection. It uses its superblock to decide about the media properties. It totally ignores non-DOS media. This is no excuse for not trying to automagically detect the floppy format, of course. I had it back in my CP/M floppy BIOS as well. -- 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. ;-)
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