I'm not being antagonistic, but...
I have a 5 megabyte hard drive sitting out in the garage. I surely hope
nobody gets ansy about supporting an interface for it, I'd have to get a
220v power lead dropped to my room and go buy an industrial table for it
to sit on. I'll need a set of ear mufflers to wear and I'll have to bolt
it down to the table so it doesn't jerk and knock a hole in the wall.
I prefer to hop down to the store and grab a new Xgig drive for a few
hundred...
...
I would assume it would be much easier for you or someone to make a tiny
patch for the kernel to support your desired tape block size rather than
go thru the hassle of a reboot etc. Rebooting your machine in itself
should be a much greater hassle than an automated MAKEDEV script that ran
at init time.
There's a tad bit of difference at chagrin and cutting your nose off to
spite your face. We are hackers, we don't accept "it can't be done", we
figure out a way to do it.
Script it, patch it, poke it. However we do it...we -do- do it.
-d
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