Re: compressed ramdisk messages

Ulrich Windl (Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de)
Fri, 16 Feb 1996 08:51:59 +0100


On 16 Feb 96 at 11:12, Paul Gortmaker wrote:

> Ulrich Windl: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 16:05:54 +0100
>
> > The progress indicator in the compressed ramdisk does not work. I
> > don't know if the following patch makes it really work, nut it seems
but
> > not wrong.
>
> There is no progress indicator for *compressed* ramdisk images. The
> progress indicator you refer to in your mail is only for *uncompressed*
> ramdisk images.

My fault! Then it's a inconsistent user interface ;-)

>
> The compressed ramdisk images use crd_load() to load the compressed
> images, and then skips over the code that handles the uncompressed ones.

But both functions have to read some sectors/tracks. Maybe we could
still have some indicator?
> Paul.
Ulrich