| Subject | LS120 enhancements | From | Paul Flinders <> | Date | 30 Dec 1998 13:14:24 +0000 |
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Here are some patches to the ide-floppy driver to support formatting of standard floppies and a (very slightly) modified copy of fdformat.
The patch also includes a small fix from Gadi to avoid an oops in idefloppy_end_request when using DMA.
Some points - The format unit ioctl isn't much use at the moment as it locks my machine (presumably) because no ide commands can be issued until it is complete - I couldn't get the status reporting during format to work. Format track also suffers from this but isn't _quite_ as antisocial.
- (For my LS120 at least) the drives don't appear to want to do a low level format of an LS120 - they just ignore the command (LS120 disks are pre-formatted anyway)
- No alternative format densities are supported. My drive reported a couple of alternatives but they were all lower than 1.44M so there didn't seem to be much point.
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