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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next prev 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 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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