At 09:18 AM 2/9/99 +0000, Philip Blundell wrote:
>>Interesting, but can it cope with a complete track of the disk? I seem to
>>remember that the floppy driver does do this from time to time, and this
>>is larger than the DMA area.
>
>Ah, I didn't realise that. I imagine that's not the common case though, and
>we could handle it differently in the last resort. Or maybe the floppy
driver
>can be prevented from doing this. I'll take a look when I have time.
I'm not sure - but on Linux/x86 the floppy driver reads a whole track
and buffers it - I can't remember if thats still in there or was removed
to save RAM on ARM.
Dave
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