History log of /freebsd-10.1-release/usr.sbin/fdread/
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


227253 06-Nov-2011 ed

Mark global functions and/or variables in fdread(8) static where possible.

This allows compilers and static analyzers to do more thorough analysis.


223197 17-Jun-2011 joerg

Open the floppy disk device with O_RDONLY rather than O_RDWR. After
all, this is the fd*read* command, and thus should be able to read
even write-protected disks.

MFC after: 1 week


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.


160522 20-Jul-2006 stefanf

Remove unused variables.


151723 26-Oct-2005 peter

fdread cannot work without opening the /dev/fd node in O_RDWR mode now,
because it sets the floppy controller parameters, which requires O_RDWR.
Specifically, the FD_SOPTS ioctl requires this, and the code errors out
and aborts if it can't do it. Among other things, it is changing the
FDOPT_NOERRLOG flag. Broken in 6.0 as well.


141846 13-Feb-2005 ru

Expand *n't contractions.


140368 17-Jan-2005 ru

Added the EXIT STATUS section where appropriate.


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.


137459 09-Nov-2004 nyan

Fixed fd related tools on pc98.

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


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).


131760 07-Jul-2004 phk

PC98 got it right here: sectors can be non-512 byte sized.


131500 02-Jul-2004 ru

Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks.


127522 28-Mar-2004 nyan

Add PC98 supports.

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


126230 25-Feb-2004 phk

Set size field correctly, it is number of sectors on the device, not
number of 512 bytes sectors.

Recognize size == -1 as meaning "auto".


95127 20-Apr-2002 charnier

Use `The .Nm utility'


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.


80022 20-Jul-2001 obrien

Remove GCC'isms in CFLAGS.


79286 05-Jul-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: use plain text parentheses with plain text blocks.


79110 02-Jul-2001 joerg

Break out the function to print the FDC error information into
fdutil.c so it can be used elsewhere.


78857 26-Jun-2001 joerg

Implement the -I option that uses the FD_READID ioctl in order to read
sector ID fields from a floppy, and display them.


77801 06-Jun-2001 joerg

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


77729 04-Jun-2001 joerg

Now that we've got the ne765.h file installed under <dev/ic/>, use it
here instead of the old "/sys/isa/ic/..." hack. This should fix
building the world for machines that don't have a /sys symlink,
finally.


76685 16-May-2001 joerg

Fix man page markup.

Submitted by: ru


76590 14-May-2001 joerg

This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r76589,
which included commits to RCS files with non-trunk default branches.