Re: Who maintains drivers/block/floppy.c?

Greg Ingram (ingram@symsys.com)
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:13:08 -0500 (CDT)


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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