Re: [PATCH] fdc: fix floppy boot for Red Hat Linux 5.2

2021-03-12 Thread John Snow
On 3/12/21 3:01 AM, Thomas Huth wrote: That whole table-based approach seems quite unreliable to me - I've seen floppy disks with 80, 81, 82 or sometimes even 83 tracks in the past, so I think we would do better with a more flexible way of guessing ... but for the time being, this is certainl

Re: [PATCH] fdc: fix floppy boot for Red Hat Linux 5.2

2021-03-12 Thread Thomas Huth
On 12/03/2021 07.32, John Snow wrote: The image size indicates it's an 81 track floppy disk image, which we don't have a listing for in the geometry table. When you force the drive type to 1.44MB, it guesses the reasonably close 18/80. When the drive type is allowed to auto-detect or set to 2.88,

[PATCH] fdc: fix floppy boot for Red Hat Linux 5.2

2021-03-11 Thread John Snow
The image size indicates it's an 81 track floppy disk image, which we don't have a listing for in the geometry table. When you force the drive type to 1.44MB, it guesses the reasonably close 18/80. When the drive type is allowed to auto-detect or set to 2.88, it guesses a very incorrect geometry.