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- On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Andrew Bower wrote:
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- >I cannot find a device suitable for reading ADFS discs among the
- >standard shapes on my i386 distribution. How can this be done please?
- >I have compiled in ADFS support, but I can't even read the raw data off
- >the floppies.
-
- The bad news? You can't right now. The ADFS support right now is basically
- for hard-drives, although if you can make up a disk image file, it should
- manage with that just fine too.
-
- I've patched up the floppy drivers on past versions of linux (1.2.xx) to
- manage the trick, but looking over the current floppy drivers they've
- changed a bit.
-
- I haven't got time to fix the current 2.1.x ones to handle ADFS disks
- myself - exams and the like - but it's certainly doable if someone is
- feeling brave enough to tackle it.
-
- The one problem I had when I was working on 1.2.xx kernels is that the
- kernel doesn't manage to autodetect the sector size, so I was forced to
- make either a 512-byte-sector-kernel or a 1024-byte-sector-kernel - if
- someone does the patches on the current kernel, a more elegant solution
- would be nice too.
-
- hint for anyone brave enough to tackle it (from what I vaguely remember
- from a few years ago): the FD_SIZECODE stuff in /usr/include/linux/fd.h is
- the really important bit, but you'll need to watch buffer sizes and stuff
- too.
-
- Have fun all,
-
- -- James Craig
- <jcraig@mad.scientist.com>
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