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From: | John Snow |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH] fdc: fix floppy boot for Red Hat Linux 5.2 |
Date: | Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:21:24 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.8.0 |
On 3/12/21 3:01 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
That whole table-based approach seems quite unreliable to me - I've seen floppy disks with 80, 81, 82 or sometimes even 83 tracks in the past, so I think we would do better with a more flexible way of guessing ... but for the time being, this is certainly a quick and easy fix that also should not have any negative impact, thus:Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Yes, that's my thought. I can't personally justify tackling this hokey system -- I simply don't know enough about the history of the device to design a suitable replacement.
So, it's a band-aid, but one that fits with the way the floppy has worked for quite a long time, and seems the least likely to bother anything further.
--js
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