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Re: Scanning floppy devices with assumed density



On Sun, Jul 03, 2022 at 01:20:15PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 03, 2022 at 05:21:27AM -0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> > Another question of course is why the isa fd driver reads a disklabel at all
> > when it (ab-)uses the partition number to select densities.
> 
> Yeah, can we commit that fix with a log like:
> 
>  fd(4): only support GPT partitioning on floppies, welcome to this millenium
> 
> please?

Would be a confusing comment, there is no partitioning at all.


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