I am very grateful for the support provided by the following people: Heiko Schroeder (heiko@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de) Wrote the fdpatches, which inspired the new floppy driver since 1.1.41 David Niemi (niemi@tux.org) Provided many useful suggestions and general support. Contributed to superformat.c and mtools. Wrote fdc version detection code and the hlt/hut/srt code. Tested ED code. Found many minor bugs. Wrote the floppy_format file, and added a few default formats Bill Broadhurst (bbroad@netcom.com) Tested and corrected ED code. Sam Chessman (sam.chessman@slma.com) Thorsten Meinecke (thm@aglaia.in-berlin.de) Pointed me to 2m. Reported a compatibility bug with dosemu. Ciriaco Garcia de Celis (ciri@gui.uva.es) Wrote the 2m program. Frank Lofaro (ftlofaro@unlv.edu) Provided information about an FDC which supports the version command, but no other command. Francois Genolini (genolini@westminster.ac.uk) Noticed that the mutual exclusion between mount and open is harmful for Lilo. Reported the ram disk loading bug. Reported a device size bug. Andre Schroeter (A.Schroeter@dkfz-heidelberg.de) Noticed that the mutual exclusion between mount and open is harmful for Lilo. Wolfram (u7y22ab@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de) Rick (pclink@qus102.qld.npb.telecom.com.au) Reported the ram disk loading bug. Kai Makisara (makisara@vtinsu.ins.vtt.fi) Derek Atkins (warlord@MIT.EDU) Laurent Chemla (chemla@cnam.fr) Found an incompatibility with PCI & Adaptec 1542CF, and proposed fixes for the problem. Mitch Miers (root@intellibase.gte.com) Found an incompatibility with PCI & Adaptec 1542CF, proposed fixes for the problem, and did experiments to find the explanation for the problem. Helped debugging the 1.1.52 alpha patches Ulrich Dessauer (ud@nitmar.muc.de) Proposed the ability to read 256 sectors (used by OS-9) Bill Metzenthen Found a fix for the bug which broke e2fsck. Uwe Bonnes (bon@LTE.E-TECHNIK.uni-erlangen.de) Suggested modifications to mmount which allow more flexibility. Helped debugging the 1.1.52 alpha patches Sven Verdoolaege Suggested mtools support for disk serial numbers (and sent a patch). Dario Ballabio (Dario_Ballabio@milano.europe.dg.com) Discovered that under heavy disk load fsync may return before all buffers are flushed. Helped debugging the 1.1.52 and later alpha patches Frank van Maarseveen (fvm@tasking.nl) Helped debugging a hardware incompatibility with drives that are "a bit slow detecting a floppy change". Karl Eichwalder (ke@pertron.central.de) Proposed some changes to the Makefile. Suggested mtools should check for mounted disks and non-msdos disks Martin Schulze (Martin.Schulze@Infodrom.North.DE) Actually took diskseekd seriously and proposed an improvement :-) Rainer Zimmermann (zimmerm@Mathematik.Uni-Marburg.DE) Contributed fdmount, a daemon which automatically handles mounting and unmounting of disks. ... and many more that I forgot to add ...