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- I am very grateful for the support provided by the following people:
-
- Heiko Schroeder (heiko@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de)
- Wrote the fdpatches, which inspired the new floppy driver
- since 1.1.41
-
- David Niemi (niemi@tux.org)
- Provided many useful suggestions and general support.
- Contributed to superformat.c and mtools.
- Wrote fdc version detection code and the hlt/hut/srt code.
- Tested ED code. Found many minor bugs.
- Wrote the floppy_format file, and added a few default formats
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- Bill Broadhurst (bbroad@netcom.com)
- Tested and corrected ED code.
-
- Sam Chessman (sam.chessman@slma.com)
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- Thorsten Meinecke (thm@aglaia.in-berlin.de)
- Pointed me to 2m.
- Reported a compatibility bug with dosemu.
-
- Ciriaco Garcia de Celis (ciri@gui.uva.es)
- Wrote the 2m program.
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- Frank Lofaro (ftlofaro@unlv.edu)
- Provided information about an FDC which supports the version command,
- but no other command.
-
- Francois Genolini (genolini@westminster.ac.uk)
- Noticed that the mutual exclusion between mount and open is harmful
- for Lilo.
- Reported the ram disk loading bug.
- Reported a device size bug.
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- Andre Schroeter (A.Schroeter@dkfz-heidelberg.de)
- Noticed that the mutual exclusion between mount and open is harmful
- for Lilo.
-
- Wolfram (u7y22ab@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de)
- Rick (pclink@qus102.qld.npb.telecom.com.au)
- Reported the ram disk loading bug.
-
- Kai Makisara (makisara@vtinsu.ins.vtt.fi)
- Derek Atkins (warlord@MIT.EDU)
- Laurent Chemla (chemla@cnam.fr)
- Found an incompatibility with PCI & Adaptec 1542CF, and
- proposed fixes for the problem.
-
- Mitch Miers (root@intellibase.gte.com)
- Found an incompatibility with PCI & Adaptec 1542CF,
- proposed fixes for the problem, and did experiments to find
- the explanation for the problem.
- Helped debugging the 1.1.52 alpha patches
-
- Ulrich Dessauer (ud@nitmar.muc.de)
- Proposed the ability to read 256 sectors (used by OS-9)
-
- Bill Metzenthen <billm@jacobi.maths.monash.edu.au>
- Found a fix for the bug which broke e2fsck.
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- Uwe Bonnes (bon@LTE.E-TECHNIK.uni-erlangen.de)
- Suggested modifications to mmount which allow more flexibility.
- Helped debugging the 1.1.52 alpha patches
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- Sven Verdoolaege <kpverd@cs.kuleuven.ac.be>
- Suggested mtools support for disk serial numbers (and sent a patch).
-
- Dario Ballabio (Dario_Ballabio@milano.europe.dg.com)
- Discovered that under heavy disk load fsync may return before
- all buffers are flushed.
- Helped debugging the 1.1.52 and later alpha patches
-
- Frank van Maarseveen (fvm@tasking.nl)
- Helped debugging a hardware incompatibility with drives that are
- "a bit slow detecting a floppy change".
-
-
- Karl Eichwalder (ke@pertron.central.de)
- Proposed some changes to the Makefile.
- Suggested mtools should check for mounted disks and non-msdos disks
-
-
- Martin Schulze (Martin.Schulze@Infodrom.North.DE)
- Actually took diskseekd seriously and proposed an improvement :-)
-
-
- Rainer Zimmermann (zimmerm@Mathematik.Uni-Marburg.DE)
- Contributed fdmount, a daemon which automatically handles
- mounting and unmounting of disks.
-
-
- ... and many more that I forgot to add ...
-