Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!fwi.uva.nl!croes From: croes@fwi.uva.nl (Felix A. Croes) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: minix ST 1.5 patch 3 Message-ID: <1320@carol.fwi.uva.nl> Date: 10 Oct 90 18:31:08 GMT References: Sender: news@fwi.uva.nl Lines: 24 meulenbr@cst.philips.nl (Frans Meulenbroeks) writes: >Hi. Here is patch 3 for minix ST 1.5 [...] >The floppy driver can now deal with various disk formats. >This is done through the boot block. [...] >Small note: the fs changes in this posting are not yet accepted by ast. >If he decides not to incorporate them (or something functionally >equivalent) both the support for removable hard disks and the new floppy >driver may not be usable in future versions. >Of course I'll try to persuade him to incorporate these changes. Why not use a separate (minor) device type for each disk format? That is the tidy way of doing things, no patches to the fs are required and the cdiff to stfloppy.c is so small it's almost trivial. -- Felix Croes (croes@fwi.uva.nl)