Re: Scanning floppy devices with assumed density

2022-07-03 Thread Michael van Elst
On Sun, Jul 03, 2022 at 01:20:15PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Sun, Jul 03, 2022 at 05:21:27AM -, Michael van Elst wrote: > > Another question of course is why the isa fd driver reads a disklabel at all > > when it (ab-)uses the partition number to select densities. > > Yeah, can we com

Re: Scanning floppy devices with assumed density

2022-07-03 Thread Martin Husemann
On Sun, Jul 03, 2022 at 05:21:27AM -, Michael van Elst wrote: > Another question of course is why the isa fd driver reads a disklabel at all > when it (ab-)uses the partition number to select densities. Yeah, can we commit that fix with a log like: fd(4): only support GPT partitioning on flo

Re: Scanning floppy devices with assumed density

2022-07-02 Thread Michael van Elst
j...@ziaspace.com (John Klos) writes: >boot device: fd0 [ 5.121888] fd0d: hard error reading fsbn 0 of 0-2 (st0 >0x40 st1 0x1 st2 0x0 cyl 0 head 0 sec 1) >She wondered why fd0d is being used here. I can't imagine this is due to >scanning for a disklabel, since they've been around forever, so is

Scanning floppy devices with assumed density

2022-07-02 Thread John Klos
Hi, all, It has been ages since I've used floppies in NetBSD very much, but checking the man page, different slice letters are used to indicate disk densities. From fdc(4): The driver supports the following floppy diskette formats by using particular partitions: 1.44MB 3.