ImageDisk project is canceled

[Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner]

It was thus said that the Great Patrick Finnegan once stated:
> 
> > You are, IMHO, missing the point. Under linux, you have an ioctl()
> > call that lets you send any ocmmand bytes you like to the FDC. You can
> > therefore get that chip to do anything that it's capable of. And that
> > call takes care of setting up the DMA controller if you need it,
> > making sure the DMA buffer doesn't cross a page boundary, and all the
> > other nasty little details.
> 
> Why can't you just write a kernel module that does its ReadID with 
> interrupts turned off...  there's ways to keep the OS from task 
> switching during the critical section of your code that does the sector 
> layout determination - writing a kernel module or using realtime 
> priority (nice -20 might work on Linux) of the OS if it's got it.

  Not sure how that would play on a mutiple processor system, but yes, that
would work on a single processor system.

  -spc (Overall system performance might suffer, but this is a rare thing
	to do anyway ... )