New floppy server code

Hi All,

I've just about finished a major rework of the floppy server, and I wondered
if anyone would care to do some testing for me - I've run it against 1.44
MByte 3.5" and 1.2 MByte 5.25" drives, but I'd like to see how it runs on
other people's hardware and maybe on a 720k, 360k or 2.88M drive (all of
which *should* now work).

Here's a quick summary of the changes:

- Minor bug fixes
- Handles 360k, 720k, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88M drives
- Handles all of the media combinations I'm aware of for each drive type
- Provides new device names for specific media in a drive, eg:

        /dev/fd/fd0_720 720k diskette in fd0
        /dev/fd/fd0_1440 1.44M diskette in fd0
        /dev/fd/fd1_1200 1.2M diskette in fd1

- Provides automatic sensing of media via /dev/fd/fd0 and /dev/fd/fd1
- Allows user defined diskette/media parameters via /dev/fd/fd0 and
        /dev/fd/fd1
- Selectable base I/O address for the floppy controller
- Autodetection of controller types - should optimise performance on 82077
        type controllers.
- Diskette changed indication
- Write protection handled
- Per drive or per controller retry values
- Per drive or per controller syslog warning control (eg do we see all
        messages, failures only, critical only, etc)

I will be adding support for formatting diskettes in the near future, and
I'll write a diskette formatting program when I do this. Selection of the
params/options can be done via the "stat" utility, so there's no need for a
special utility for that purpose.

                Regards,
                Dave
Received on Sun Jul 17 05:26:12 1994