Re: [j_at_uriah.heep.sax.de: Re: fdformat(8) doesn't work]

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:05:06 +0200
In message <20040425140304.A17564_at_uriah.heep.sax.de>, Joerg Wunsch writes:

>I've noticed more (longer-standing) brokeness in the floppy driver
>as well: the automatic creation of cloned devices stopped working
>some time before FreeBSD 5.2.  I also intend to fix that.

Please do not reintroduce the density select cloning.

It collides pretty heavily with the way diskdevices operate these days
and it will make it practically impossible to make fd(4) behave like a
proper GEOM disk driver.

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Received on Mon Apr 26 2004 - 03:05:08 UTC

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