Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:13:08 -0500 (CDT) | From | Greg Ingram <> | Subject | Re: Who maintains drivers/block/floppy.c? |
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On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Per subject, who maintains drivers/block/floppy.c? Nobody is mentioned in > > MAINTAINERS. I've got some patches to support the floppy formats used by > > the AT&T 7300 "UNIX PC" (3b1) dinosaur. > > Right now nobody as far as I can tell.
Hmm... How would I go about adding support for these formats?
If I'm reading right, there's one bit in the minor device number for the controller, 2 bits for the drive, leaving 5 bits for the format. And there are 32 formats defined. :( What ought I to do?
And another thing: The 3b1 insists on preserving the first track on the top of the disk for system stuff. They have one device for the whole disk and a second device for the useable data portion. Seems like a waste.
Cheers,
- Greg
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