From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 7 23:37:05 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA23296 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 23:37:05 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA23279 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 23:36:55 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id QAA01164 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 16:15:45 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199509080645.QAA01164@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: higher density diskettes To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 16:15:44 +0930 (CST) In-Reply-To: <199509080606.IAA11721@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Sep 8, 95 08:06:36 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1243 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch stands accused of saying: > > Oooh, they're wasting space with a root directory! Sin! can't have that. > > I bet the root directory and the single file therein are actually > dummies. They are only there to not confuse people looking at it > without the proper driver loaded. I'd daresay they are - I'd guess that the FAT is only 1 sector long, and various other space-saving things too. > I've already been discussing this with Bruce (altough, this has been > at the time the article about OS/2's install floppies appeared here), > and the result was that it's rather useless since the BIOS cannot > handle it, and our installation procedure does require a single (1.2 > MB !!!) floppy at all. Does the BIOS actually rangecheck the sector numbers you try to read? Talk about a nuisance 8( (As suggestions go, it wasn't a bad one) > cheers, J"org -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[