On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:43:59AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 09:36:25AM +0200, Juergen Hannken-Illjes wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Fixing 2) is trickier. To avoid the heavy writes to the snapshot file
> > > with the fs suspended, the snapshot appears with its real lenght and
>
> Is there a saner way of reading non-standard (e.g., 10 sectors per track)
> floppies than either
> a) building a custom kernel with modified fd_types in sys/dev/isa/fd.c
> b) writing a user-space program that sets the appropriate parameters with
> FDIOCSETFORMAT and then, holding the device open,
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:48:55AM +0200, Juergen Hannken-Illjes wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:43:59AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 09:36:25AM +0200, Juergen Hannken-Illjes wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > Fixing 2) is trickier. To avoid the heavy writes to the snapshot f
