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 DAA27202 for fdutils@tux.org; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 03:09:42 -0400 Received: from localhost (schmitz@localhost) by zirkon.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA24395; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:09:37 +0200 Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:09:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Michael Schmitz schmitz@zirkon.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de To: Jochen Voss jvoss2@web.de cc: Taral taral@taral.net, fdutils list fdutils@tux.org, Michael Schmitz schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de, 78915-forwarded@bugs.debian.org, alain@linux.lu, geert@linux-m68k.org Subject: Re: superformat does not work on m68k machines In-Reply-To: 20020707222911.GA9843@tatonka.pfalz.de Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.10.10207080855260.24312-100000@zirkon.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
AFAIK, this is an m68k linux kernel limitation.
Yes, I know. But fdformat is said to work, so formatting floppies should not be completely impossible.
Do you know, is anybody working on the m68k kernel floppy driver?
Nope. It works, why should anybody tamper with it?
Adding the missing ioctls to the Amiga floppy driver does not seem to make sense (though it would be easy: just add a fourth drive type for user defined parameters at the head of the drive type list, then set unit[drive].type to &drive_types[0] and modify those parameters if a matching set isn't found).
Disclaimer: I don't even know if the floppy hardware can be programmed to support arbitrary formats. Drive formats are selected by opening the corresponding device on the Amiga.
CC: to Geert who might know more about Amiga floppy hardware.
Michael