rheffel@cs2.wsu.edu (04/07/89)
I am in the process of patching kernel/floppy.c and dos[dir, read, write].c so that they can support 720K and 1.44M drives. The patch kit can be found at bugs.nosc.mil. The point of this diatribe is that I whole-heartedly agree with the author of that patch kit that devices should not be configured to computer systems but to the hardware a system has. For example, I run MINIX 1.3 on a 12 MHz Zero Wait State 286 (DTK motherboard) that I put together myself. It has a 360K Toshiba floppy drive and a 1.44M Toshiba 3 and 1/2 inch microfloppy drive. This configuration does not match the PC, PC/XT, PC/AT, or PS/2 standard setup. It is really a mix of PC and PS/2 type storage mediums. Having flags that reflect drive types (eg, D360K, D1_2M, D720K, D1_44M) is preferable to (pc, pc_at, ps2). Enough said! rich heffel (rheffel@cs2.wsu.edu)