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- From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
- Subject: Re: Can't fdformat
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.200739.26970@muddcs.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- References: <5512@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> <1992Aug16.061146.8868@pool.info.sunyit.edu> <1992Aug16.151400.837@bernina.ethz.ch>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 20:07:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug16.151400.837@bernina.ethz.ch> almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug16.061146.8868@pool.info.sunyit.edu> ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
- >> What is setfdparms?
- >
- >setfdprm is a program that loads arbitrary disk parameters for an auto-
- >detecting floppy device. You can use it to access unusual formats and to
- >define the format before low-level formatting a disk (with fdformat).
- >
- >setfdprm is on tsx-11.mit.edu, /pub/linux/sources/sbin/setfdprm.tar.Z
-
- It's also on the latest root disk (0.97 right now, 0.97.1 in a day or
- so), so if you installed from one of those, you don't need to rush out
- and get it, it's already there!
-
- >> Was this "phasing-out" of device names made public or was it a secret
- >> plot against experienced Linux users?
- >
- >Modern packages (i.e. MCC-interim) therefore use a new scheme that has
- >been discussed on the standards mailing list.
-
- The same names are used on the 0.97 (and 0.97.1, and later) root
- images as well. So, they can pretty much be considered the 'standard'.
-
- >The fixed-format floppy devices won't go away (although I think that
- >a few releases of the rootimage don't create special files in /dev
- >for them, because the discussion on the standards list was (is?) still
- >in progress), but their names will change.
-
- That's right - I didn't want to assign some name arbitrarily without
- something being decided in the Linux Standards list. I did anyways,
- but who's counting?
-
- To be perfectly honst in why you (going back to the original poster)
- haven't seen any sort of official announcement on the new names:
-
- The Linux Standards List has never decided anything.
-
- Sure, there have been drafts of various documents, but I've never seen
- anything with an 'official' rubberstamp. I don't even think the
- 'Directory Standard' was ever fully christened.
- --
- + Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95)
- | Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- | jwinstea@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
- + or jwinstea@fenris.Claremont.EDU
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