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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, terry@lambert.org
Subject: Re: devfs questions
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>Most 3.5" floppies support change notificatio, if we fix what Bruce
>noted the other day regarding IDE/EIDE controller port address
>conflicts and handling IDE/EIDE controller problems.

It's not a problem because splbio() locking is coarse-grained.

>Slicing floppies is obnoxious anyway.

It's good for debugging.  Many forms of hardware braindamage are
represented in the floppy device.

Bruce