Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 17:59:13 -0800 From: Alan Batie <batie@aahz.jf.intel.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: floppy media change detection Message-ID: <19980129175913.55683@aahz.jf.intel.com>
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--X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Dating myself horribly, I seem to remember the days of 360K floppies where in the dos world, you'd do yourself in bigtime by swapping floppies and the directory would be cached and you'd end up writing the wrong one back out. It seems like a few of the later 360's and then the 1.2's and 1.44's fixed this with a media change signal of some sort (maybe it was the transition from 180K to 360K?). Am I hallucinating? I don't remember how you told dos you wanted to change the floppy certainly, so it's possible... A quick scan through the fd controller doesn't indicate any such thing, and it would be really handy for an application I'm working on... Am I out of luck? Thanks... -- Alan Batie ------ What goes up, must come down. batie@aahz.jf.intel.com \ / Ask any system administrator. +1 503-264-8844 (voice) \ / --unknown D0 D2 39 0E 02 34 D6 B4 \/ 5A 41 21 8F 23 5F 08 9D --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNNEz8RCfrckvDwdpAQHLeAP/YDlQkGheaiPQzWAKSiFs+2VdvsYPUih7 tl6d0fuR75HPYkG5nOJ3RCdQBhpJ5t8UqBuTJB+jAnPRt2Dimj7kS8L+nzVYVH6C VcIfxIx3UKIkLMfNi35ISU+lBMD7mLUbu4ZIUZcAT85oBR+yExJ7QVYZ4bhiZbM8 gMMpmDg13Fc= =D2MZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT--
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