From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>,
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 15:38:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <483DB49D.7040706@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080528134257.GA16164@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-28 19:38 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 [this message]
2008-05-28 19:59 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-05-28 21:58 ` Gene Heskett
2008-05-28 21:50 ` Gene Heskett
2008-05-28 21:46 ` Gene Heskett
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