Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 09/12] fdc: add physical disk sizes

2016-01-20 Thread John Snow
On 01/20/2016 05:48 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 01/19/2016 11:51 PM, John Snow wrote: >> 2.88MB capable drives can accept 1.44MB floppies, >> for instance. To rework the pick_geometry function, >> we need to know if our current drive can even accept >> the type of disks we're considering. >> >> NB

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 09/12] fdc: add physical disk sizes

2016-01-20 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/19/2016 11:51 PM, John Snow wrote: > 2.88MB capable drives can accept 1.44MB floppies, > for instance. To rework the pick_geometry function, > we need to know if our current drive can even accept > the type of disks we're considering. > > NB: This allows us to distinguish between all of the

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 09/12] fdc: add physical disk sizes

2016-01-19 Thread John Snow
2.88MB capable drives can accept 1.44MB floppies, for instance. To rework the pick_geometry function, we need to know if our current drive can even accept the type of disks we're considering. NB: This allows us to distinguish between all of the "total sectors" collisions between 1.20MB and 1.44MB