Received: from zirkon.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de (zirkon.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de [134.99.176.3]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAA26511 for fdutils@tux.org; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 02:53:52 -0400 Received: from localhost (schmitz@localhost) by zirkon.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA24362; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 08:53:44 +0200 Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 08:53:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Michael Schmitz schmitz@zirkon.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de To: Jochen Voss jvoss@rhrk.uni-kl.de cc: fdutils list fdutils@tux.org, Michael Schmitz schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de, 78915-forwarded@bugs.debian.org, alain@linux.lu Subject: Re: superformat does not work on m68k machines In-Reply-To: 20020707190052.GA10341@automatix.mathematik.uni-kl.de Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.10.10207080840440.24312-100000@zirkon.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
It is reported that on an Amiga2000 with a DD floppy drive, fdutils 5.4-20020222 and kernel 2.2.20 the following error occurs:
root@aahz:~>superformat /dev/fd0 get drive characteristics: Function not implementedIt is rumored, that this is a general problem of the Linux kernel for the m68k architecture. Is there any way to work around this? Or is m68k unsupported?
This rumor might be substantiated by a quick look at the Atari and Amiga floppy drivers. My prediction: the ioctl in question isn't implemented, or the ioctl data size mismatches.
Both Amiga and Atari implement FDGETPRM. Atari also implements FDSETPRM and FDDEFPRM (and those used to work at the time they were written).
Michael