History log of /freebsd-10.1-release/usr.sbin/fdformat/
Revision Date Author Comments
272461 03-Oct-2014 gjb

Copy stable/10@r272459 to releng/10.1 as part of
the 10.1-RELEASE process.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


218910 21-Feb-2011 brucec

The FD_FORM ioctl used to ignore errors from the floppy controller; now when
it encounters an error it returns an error from the ioctl.
Ignore any errors when using the FD_FORM ioctl.

PR: kern/103862
MFC after: 3 days


206622 14-Apr-2010 uqs

mdoc: order prologue macros consistently by Dd/Dt/Os

Although groff_mdoc(7) gives another impression, this is the ordering
most widely used and also required by mdocml/mandoc.

Reviewed by: ru
Approved by: philip, ed (mentors)


201390 02-Jan-2010 ed

The last big commit: let usr.sbin/ use WARNS=6 by default.


194892 24-Jun-2009 joerg

Drop the defunct FDOPT_NOERRLOG option from all the floppy utilities.
The kernel does not log floppy media errors anymore.

In fdcontrol, do always open the file descriptor in read-only mode so
it can operate on read-only media, as there is no longer a separate
control device to operate on.


167104 28-Feb-2007 ru

Fix a nit noticed during translation.


151997 03-Nov-2005 ru

The default fill byte is 0xf6, not 0xf5.


140412 18-Jan-2005 ru

One of the DIAGNOSTICS sections should be EXIT STATUS.


139905 08-Jan-2005 delphij

Cleanup usr.sbin/fd* so they can compile under WARNS=6.

fdcontrol/fdcontrol.c:
- Add const constraint to an intermediate value
which is not supposed to be changed elsewhere.
fdread/fdread.c:
- Use _devname in favor of devname to avoid name
conflicit.
- -1 is less than any positive number so in order
to get the block to function, we should get the
block a little earlier.
- Cast to remove signed when we are sure that a
return value is positive, or is compared with
an positive number (tracknumber of a floppy
disk is not likely to have UINT_MAX/2 anyway)
fdread/fdutil.c:
- Use more specific initializer
fdwrite/fdwrite.c:
- Use static on format_track since it's not
referenced in other places.
- Use const char* to represent string constant.

Bump WARNS accordingly.


134081 20-Aug-2004 phk

Rewrite of the floppy driver to make it MPsafe & GEOM friendly:

Centralize the fdctl_wr() function by adding the offset in
the resource to the softc structure.

Bugfix: Read the drive-change signal from the correct place:
same place as the ctl register.

Remove the cdevsw{} related code and implement a GEOM class.

Ditch the state-engine and park a thread on each controller
to service the queue.

Make the interrupt FAST & MPSAFE since it is just a simple
wakeup(9) call.

Rely on a per controller mutex to protect the bioqueues.
Grab GEOMs topology lock when we have to and Giant when
ISADMA needs it. Since all access to the hardware is
isolated in the per controller thread, the rest of the
driver is lock & Giant free.

Create a per-drive queue where requests are parked while
the motor spins up. When the motor is running the requests
are purged to the per controller queue. This allows
requests to other drives to be serviced during spin-up.

Only setup the motor-off timeout when we finish the last
request on the queue and cancel it when a new request
arrives. This fixes the bug in the old code where the motor
turned off while we were still retrying a request.

Make the "drive-change" work reliably. Probe the drive on
first opens. Probe with a recal and a seek to cyl=1 to
reset the drive change line and check again to see if we
have a media.

When we see the media disappear we destroy the geom provider,
create a new one, and flag that autodetection should happen
next time we see a media (unless a specific format is configured).

Add sysctl tunables for a lot of drive related parameters.
If you spend a lot of time waiting for floppies you can
grab the i82078 pdf from Intels web-page and try tuning
these.

Add sysctl debug.fdc.debugflags which will enable various
kinds of debugging printfs.

Add central definitions of our well known floppy formats.

Simplify datastructures for autoselection of format and
call the code at the right times.

Bugfix: Remove at least one piece of code which would have
made 2.88M floppies not work.

Use implied seeks on enhanced controllers.

Use multisector transfers on all controllers. Increase
ISADMA bounce buffers accordingly.

Fall back to single sector when retrying. Reset retry count
on every successful transaction.

Sort functions in a more sensible order and generally tidy
up a fair bit here and there.

Assorted related fixes and adjustments in userland utilities.

WORKAROUNDS:
Do allow r/w opens of r/o media but refuse actual write
operations. This is necessary until the p4::phk_bufwork
branch gets integrated (This problem relates to remounting
not reopening devices, see sys/*/*/${fs}_vfsops.c for details).

Keep PC98's private copy of the old floppy driver compiling
and presumably working (see below).

TODO (planned)

Move probing of drives until after interrupts/timeouts work
(like for ATA/SCSI drives).

TODO (unplanned)

This driver should be made to work on PC98 as well.

Test on YE-DATA PCMCIA floppy drive.

Fix 2.88M media.

This is a MT5 candidate (depends on the bioq_takefirst() addition).


127522 28-Mar-2004 nyan

Add PC98 supports.

Submitted by: Watanabe Kazuhiro <CQG00620@nifty.ne.jp> (mostly)


124200 07-Jan-2004 anholt

From PR:
In fdformat.c a closing parenthesis is at the wrong place. Instead of
adding sizeof _PATH_DEV + 1 to the length of argv[optind], the length of the
string starting (sizeof _PATH_DEV + 1) characters after argv[optind]'s
beginning (accessing junk memory if we jump over the terminating null
character) is passed to malloc().

PR: bin/60026
Submitted by: Stefan Farfeleder <stefan@fafoe.narf.at>


93590 01-Apr-2002 mike

Include <string.h> for some prototypes, rather than depending on
pollution from <strings.h>.


89227 10-Jan-2002 ru

mdoc(7) police: doh, again I forgot about this XXX.


89226 10-Jan-2002 ru

mdoc(7) police: tidy up the markup.


88480 25-Dec-2001 joerg

Second round of floppy disk driver documentation updates: document the
changes in the userland utilities. For fdcontrol(8), i now finally
keep my promise made more than 7 years ago that ``the fdcontrol
utility is currently under development and the user interface will
likely change''. :-)


87992 15-Dec-2001 joerg

Long promised major enhancement set for the floppy disk driver:

. The main device node now supports automatic density selection for
commonly used media densities. So you can stuff your 1.44 MB and
720 KB media into your drive and just access /dev/fd0, no questions
asked. It's all that easy, isn't it? :)

. Device density handling has been completely overhauled. The old way
of hardwired kernel density knowledge is no longer there. Instead,
the kernel now implements 16 subdevices per drive. The first
subdevice uses automatic density selection, while the remaining 15
devices are freely programmable. They can be assigned an arbitrary
name of the form /dev/fd[:digit]+.[:digit:]{1,4}, where the second
number is meant to either implement device names that are mnemonic
for their raw capacity (as it used to be), or they can alternatively
be created as "anonymous" devices like fd0.1 through fd0.15,
depending on the taste of the administrator. After creating a
subdevice, it is initialized to the maximal native density of the
respective drive type, so it needs to be customized for other
densities by using fdcontrol(8). Pseudo-partition devices (fd0a
through fd0h) are still supported as symlinks.

. The old hack to use flags 0x1 to always assume drive 0 were there is
no longer supported; this is now supposed to be done by wiring the
devices down from the loader via device flags. On IA32
architectures, the first two drives are looked up in the CMOS
configuration records though. On PCMCIA (i. e., the Y-E Data
controller of the Toshiba Libretto), a single drive is always
assumed.

. Other specialities like disabling the FIFO and not probing the drive
at boot-time are selected by per-controller or per-drive flags, too.

. Unit attentions (media has been changed) are supposed to be detected
now; density autoselection only occurs after a unit attention. (Can
be turned off by a per-drive flag, this will cause each Fdopen() to
perform the autoselection.)

. FM floppies can be handled now (on controllers that actually support
it -- not all do these days).

. Fdopen() can be told to avoid density selection by setting
O_NONBLOCK; this leaves the descriptor in a half-opened state where
only a few ioctls are accepted. This is necessary to run fdformat
on a device that uses automatic density selection (since you cannot
autoselect on an unformatted medium, obviously).

. Just differentiate between a plain old NE765 and the enhanced chips,
but don't try more; the existing code was wrong and only misdetected
the chips anyway.

BUGS and TODOs:

. All documentation update still needs to be done.

. Formatting not-so-standard format yields unpredictable results; i
have yet to figure out why this happens. "Standard" formats like
720 and 1440 KB do work, however.

. rc scripts are needed to setup device nodes with nonstandard
densities (like the old /dev/fdN.MMM we used to have).

. Obtaining device flags from the kernel environment doesn't work yet,
thus currently only drives that are present in (IA32) CMOS are
really detected. Someone who knows the odds and ends about device
flags is needed here, i can't figure out what i'm doing wrong.

. 2.88 MB still needs to be done.


81622 14-Aug-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: s/BSD/.Bx/ where appropriate.


81251 07-Aug-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police:

Avoid using parenthesis enclosure macros (.Pq and .Po/.Pc) with plain text.
Not only this slows down the mdoc(7) processing significantly, but it also
has an undesired (in this case) effect of disabling hyphenation within the
entire enclosed block.


80029 20-Jul-2001 obrien

Perform a major cleanup of the usr.sbin Makefiles.
These are not perfectly in agreement with each other style-wise, but they
are orders of orders of magnitude more consistent style-wise than before.


79161 03-Jul-2001 joerg

Make fdformat WARN=2 ready.


79136 03-Jul-2001 ru

Fixed the world breakage in rev. 1.8 (space after -I).
While here, removed the GCCism (replaced with WARNS?=1).


79111 02-Jul-2001 joerg

Use the printstatus() function from ${.CURDIR}/../fdread/fdutil.c to
give a bit more information about up to 10 errors encountered during
formatting (unless -q has been specified, of course).

While being here, removed a bitrotten comment in the Makefile, and
kill the old Emacs local variable stuff at the end of fdformat.c
that's no longer useful anway.


78858 26-Jun-2001 joerg

Now that we've got it, use FDOPT_NOERRLOG for fdformat and fdwrite to
avoid blasting the syslog with error messages from bad floppies. Both
tools have their own error reporting anyway (which could easily be
cluttered by the syslog output on your terminal).


77801 06-Jun-2001 joerg

Part #2 of the <machine/ioctl_fd.h> => <sys/fdcio.h> move: handle the
tools in usr.sbin/fd*.


77063 23-May-2001 phk

fdformat prompts for user confirmation. it exits 0 if the user
doesn't confirm, which needlessly complicates scripts.

PR: 15339
Submitted by: richard winkel rich@math.missouri.edu
MFC after: 1 week


74816 26-Mar-2001 ru

- Backout botched attempt to introduce MANSECT feature.
- MAN[1-9] -> MAN.


74532 20-Mar-2001 ru

Set the default manual section for usr.sbin/ to 8.


70403 27-Dec-2000 ru

Prepare for mdoc(7)NG.


69793 09-Dec-2000 obrien

Add `_PATH_DEVZERO'.
Use _PATH_* where where possible.


69027 22-Nov-2000 ru

mdoc(7) police: do not split author names in the AUTHORS section.


68965 20-Nov-2000 ru

mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.


68575 10-Nov-2000 ru

Avoid use of direct troff requests in mdoc(7) manual pages.


61154 01-Jun-2000 phk

Add -y option which doesn't ask for confimation, but still shows progress

PR: 9259
Submitted by: Clark Gaylord <cgaylord@vt.edu>


57673 01-Mar-2000 sheldonh

Remove single-space hard sentence breaks. These degrade the quality
of the typeset output, tend to make diffs harder to read and provide
bad examples for new-comers to mdoc.


56447 23-Jan-2000 asmodai

Fix fdformat to not use /dev/r* device nodes anymore, this usage
has been made obsolete by the block/char device merging.

Reflect this change in the manual page and fix the usage of a
backslash in ``e.g.''.

Reviewed by: bright, sheldonh, phk


55541 07-Jan-2000 kato

- Added 640KB and 1232KB formats support.
- Added $FreeBSD$.

Submitted by: nyan


52338 17-Oct-1999 charnier

Correct use of .Nm.


50479 28-Aug-1999 peter

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$


48791 12-Jul-1999 nik

Add $Id$, to make it simpler for members of the translation teams to
track.

The Id line is normally at the bottom of the main comment block in the
man page, separated from the rest of the manpage by an empty comment,
like so;

.\" $Id$
.\"

If the immediately preceding comment is a @(#) format ID marker than the
the $Id$ will line up underneath it with no intervening blank lines.
Otherwise, an additional blank line is inserted.

Approved by: bde


39768 29-Sep-1998 obrien

mkdosfs(1) is dead, refere to newfs_msdos(8)


35333 20-Apr-1998 des

fd(4) referenced in HISTORY has nothing to do with floppy disks;
changed to fdc(4).


34809 23-Mar-1998 charnier

.Sh AUTHOR -> .Sh AUTHORS. Use .An/.Aq.


29531 17-Sep-1997 charnier

Use err(3). Document options in man page, not in usage string.


21880 20-Jan-1997 wosch

Sort cross references.


13744 30-Jan-1996 mpp

Fix a bunch of spelling errors in a bunch of man pages.


12107 05-Nov-1995 joerg

Cross-reference newfs(8), and mkdosfs(1).


8857 30-May-1995 rgrimes

Remove trailing whitespace.


3973 28-Oct-1994 joerg

Corrected the xref to the driver man page to be fdc(4) now that
we have one (instead of fd(4)).


3097 25-Sep-1994 joerg

Transfer speed definitions are now also found in <machine/ioctl_fd.h>.
Remove the old include file, since it used to be in a non-public place.


2852 18-Sep-1994 phk

Added a missing ${DESTDIR}. The real problem is that stuff related to
floppy formatting is in /sys/i386/isa/fdreg.h, it should be in /usr/include
somewhere ??


2840 17-Sep-1994 dg

Fix include path.


1533 22-May-1994 joerg

Make use of the new FDOPT_NORETRY facility. It does not make sense to
verify formatted tracks with fully retryng. The head should not be moved
in either case.
Also some minor copyright cleanup.


1183 20-Feb-1994 rgrimes

From: phk@login.dkuug.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Message-Id: <9402201119.AA06430@login.dkuug.dk>
Subject: bug in fdformat.c

There is a bug in fdformat.c: the number of heads are hardcoded in two places.
This is quite inconsequencial at present, but a bug nontheless.


1148 11-Feb-1994 ache

Some fixes from Joerg


1138 10-Feb-1994 ache

Fix size of il (interleave) array.


1137 10-Feb-1994 ache

Add interleave > 1 support by Poul-Henning Kamp.
Chack valid range of sectors per track.


1023 26-Jan-1994 ache

This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r1022,
which included commits to RCS files with non-trunk default branches.