linux-kernel - Re: floppy question of the hour

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Message-ID: <483DB49D.7040706@cfl.rr.com>
Date:	Wed, 28 May 2008 15:38:05 -0400
From:	Phillip Susi <psusi@....rr.com>
To:	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>
CC:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: floppy question of the hour

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.


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