From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 6 17:51:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA00627 for current-outgoing; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 17:51:44 -0800 (PST) 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 RAA00602 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 17:51:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id DAA24081 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 03:51:27 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id DAA27461 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 03:51:27 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id DAA15356 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 03:23:33 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604070123.DAA15356@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: devfs questions To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 03:23:33 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604070045.RAA28784@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 6, 96 05:45:20 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 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. ;-)