In <XFMail.20000218151141.aivanov@eu.level3.net> Anton Ivanov (aivanov@eu.level3.net) wrote:
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>> What do you mean by "blown format" ?
>>
>> I you eject a floppy during read on amiga , just just get a "Put it back
>> in !"
>> message , and when you put in back in , it continues with read and
>> nothing bad
>> happens.
>> For writing it is a little bit worse , becasue amigaOS just overwrites (
>> AFAIK )
>> the entire track ,so some older sectors might be lost, but this isn't
>> the case
>> on wintel PCs, because they operate sector-wise , so it shouldn't be a
>> problem.
>>
>> The kernel just retries the failed sector and everything is OK.
>>
>> Anyway, if the floppy is ejected when no R/W operation is in progress,
>> then there
>> is _absolutely_ no problem. User puts the floppy back on request and the
>> world is saved !
>>
>> And dont come with that "Where should be the request displayed" cr*p !
>> If you have no better idea, display it on the console !
>>
>> Or just display not message , but start blinking the drive LED and move
>> the
>> head like crazy , right after the in-use floppy is removed. That should
>> get the (l)user's attention :-)
> On most decent 144 and 288 floppies unless you have a disk inside all head move
> requests are happily ignored by the drive.
> So resistanse is futile.
> So suggested is: On fdc error beep and wait before retry. Repeat after me: BEEP
> and WAIT. Not like the floppy is very far from the speaker.
Ok. It's VERY close to scpeaker here. Just speaker is not connected to
motherboard. Plus other sources of beeps existed (like PINE :-) when
speaker was connected...
> Ah, and return -EAGAIN so that the vfs layer retries. On retry check the WAIT
> status if not expired -EAGAIN. And make sure you do not f...k error routines for
> real IO errors ;-)
> Sorry for adding for this overabused thread but this is discussing fscked
> hardware. You have a limit on how much can you actually do in software to
> compensate for the fact that the original ISA should be called not Industrial
> Standard Architecture, but Idiotism Standard Architecture.
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