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From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
Cc: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: floppy question of the hour
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 17:50:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805281750.37310.gene.heskett@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <483DB49D.7040706@cfl.rr.com>

On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Phillip Susi wrote:
>Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> Just do what the Amiga did:  Read the entire track into a buffer in
>> memory, then deal with the sectors, and write the entire track back. :)
>
>IIRC, there is no way to detect the interleave factor that the media has
>been formatted with, unless you maybe try several and see which one
>reads fastest.

ilv=3 reads the fastest by a wide margin on the target machine.

Thanks Guys.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-28 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-24  1:14 floppy question of the hour Gene Heskett
2008-05-24  9:28 ` Stefan Richter
2008-05-24 12:52   ` Gene Heskett
2008-05-27 21:49     ` Phillip Susi
2008-05-27 22:26       ` Gene Heskett
2008-06-01 19:00         ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-06-02  0:50           ` Gene Heskett
2008-06-02 10:28           ` Kay Sievers
2008-05-28 13:42       ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-05-28 19:38         ` Phillip Susi
2008-05-28 19:59           ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-05-28 21:58             ` Gene Heskett
2008-05-28 21:50           ` Gene Heskett [this message]
2008-05-28 21:46         ` Gene Heskett

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