Subject: Re: MI /etc/disktab proposal
To: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/17/2002 13:36:01
> It's matter of discussion what makes 'minimal disktab'. I think
> that the only useful entry is 'floppy' entry, for 3.5" floppy.
>
> Perhaps a floppy288 entry might also be useful there once
> we'd support 2.88MB floppies. AFAICS kernel disk drivers can fabricate
> a initial disklabel for other disk types, so no other entries should
> really be needed.
Maybe someone could write the code to determine the geometry [1] of
a given floppy?
Useful for reading non-PC floppies.
David
[1] Assuming it has the same number of sectors of the same type
on each track (which isn't true for 1 format I know of).
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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk