Subject: Change to fd minor numbers
To: NetBSD/arm32 Mailing List <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Mark Brinicombe <mark@causality.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 03/22/1998 23:24:08
Hi folks,
       Just to let people know that I plan to change the minor numbers for
the floppy driver. Currently the minor number mod 8 is used to determine
the floppy format. However in order to support acorn format floppies as
well as all the PC formats this is going to have to change to mod 16 i.e.
to 16 minors per unit rather than 8.
As to what this should mean for users ... nothing. After the change is
made you will need to rerun MAKEDEV for fd0 but that will only be in order
to access the new formats. The real impact of this change will effect
users of fd1. However on a RISCPC since only 1 floppy is supported nobody
should be using fd1.

Cheers,
				Mark