Re: sys/dev/isa/fd.c FDUNIT/FDTYPE

[jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth)]

On Oct 3,  5:43pm, David Laight wrote:
} On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 01:40:06PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
} > On 4 May 2011 12:50, Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost> 
wrote:
} > > The problem is that there might be some ports whose MAXPARTITIONS is 
still 8
} > > and such ports can't use type 8.
} > 
} > Maybe this is time to update those remaining ports to 16... :)
} 
} Last I looked that was related to the offset of the disklabel into
} the disk sector.
} In some cases there isn't room for 16 partition records.

     Floppies don't have labels.  The final character in fd0a has
nothing to do with a partition.  It is used to indicate the type of
floppy in the drive.

}-- End of excerpt from David Laight