Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:46:20 -0700 From: "Skip Hansen" <shansen@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: oversized floppies for picobsd? Message-ID: <395A1DCC.6061.1F9EEE5@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000628144646.499A-100000@sack.ees.com>
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Arg ! Funky disk formats is one of the many reasons I run PicoBSD instead of the Linux router project/fireplug stuff. The Linux high capacity floppy format used by the fireplug project assumed they can get away with 83 cylinders on a floppy. My floppy drive didn't like that and neither the new drive I bought before I figured out what they were doing. The format program didn't even attempt to verify that the head actually moved when stepping from cylinder 82 to 83 ! Floppies are unreliable enough when used as designed. I would rather have something that never works that something flaky. > Has anyone tried using "oversized" 1.722M floppy formats? There's a > single-disk linux that does this: > > http://www.toms.net/rb/ > > It seemed to work fine on the several machines I tried, getting 20% more > space on the floppy might be worth checking out... > > - Mike > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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