Re: Floppy disk support for 9000 series (715, 755, etc.) workstations.

On 2/8/2007 12:38 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Could you post the patch to sd.c here?  I, and others, can look it over,
> critique it, and help polish it before you submit it to the linux-scsi
> list.  Or if you're brave, you could send it straight to linux-scsi
> (there's about 3 of us who're on both lists, so you may well see feedback
> from a familiar name anyway).

Sure.  I'm working on this for a project that is running Sarge with the 2.6.8
kernel, so I'll need to migrate the changes over to the latest sd.c from the
parisc-2.6 tree, then clean it up a bit.  I'll post a patch as soon as its ready
for general consumption.

> Without looking at the source code to check, I suspect the fdformat code
> is trying ioctls that are implemented in floppy.c and we might want to
> emulate them in sd.c if the device is a floppy.

I haven't looked at the fdformat code either, but it aborts early due to the
scsi floppy device having the wrong major number.  I don't think it even gets to
any ioctls.  BTW, the mtools functions all appear to work.

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