linux-kernel - Re: floppy question of the hour

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Message-id: <200805281750.37310.gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 28 May 2008 17:50:37 -0400
From:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
To:	Phillip Susi <psusi@....rr.com>
Cc:	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: floppy question of the hour

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.

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