From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757269AbYE1Vuw (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2008 17:50:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755719AbYE1Vuk (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2008 17:50:40 -0400 Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.46]:39941 "EHLO vms046pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754904AbYE1Vuj (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2008 17:50:39 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 17:50:37 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Subject: Re: floppy question of the hour In-reply-to: <483DB49D.7040706@cfl.rr.com> To: Phillip Susi Cc: Lennart Sorensen , Stefan Richter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe Message-id: <200805281750.37310.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Organization: Organization? very little MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <200805232114.20937.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <20080528134257.GA16164@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <483DB49D.7040706@cfl.rr.com> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. -- Paul Valery