Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 19:48:00 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Alexander Prohorenko <white@extra.dp.ua> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fd1720 Message-ID: <20001222194800.I1654@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <20001222194029.C11268@extra.dp.ua>; from white@extra.dp.ua on Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 07:40:29PM %2B0200 References: <20001222182112.A11268@extra.dp.ua> <200012221652.eBMGqqf77392@iguana.aciri.org> <20001222194029.C11268@extra.dp.ua>
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On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 07:40:29PM +0200, Alexander Prohorenko wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 08:52:52AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > > Did anybody suceed with fd1720 flopies ? I couldn't write any single
> > > 1720K image there.
> > you must fdformat /dev/fd0.1720 (check syntax) first, otherwise
> > the write fails when it hits the first sector (sec.19 track 0) which
> > is supposed to be there but is not
> > Note that almost surely you won't be able to boot from that disk.
>
> Luigi.
>
> Thank you, your advise was very helpfull. However, I supposed to boot
> from it, but didn't get anyting except the FreeBSD BOOT loader. That's
> bad. I miss about 30KB on a usual fd1440 diskette to run my PicoBSD
> build on, that's why I'm digging into this format.
>
> Can you suggest me something in this case? Looks like FreeBSD BOOT
> loader doesn't know anything about disk partitioning for such
> "stressed" formats.
To quote luigi's commit message, introducing this functionality
to -stable's PicoBSD..
luigi 2000/12/21 18:11:14 PST
Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_4)
release/picobsd/build build
Log:
Add support for different floppy sizes (1480, 1720, 2880).
The "1720" format will not boot most likely.
The "1480" format (really 1476KB, 18 sectors x 82 tracks) does
boot fine on the systems i have tried.
Can you try 1480?
G'luck,
Peter
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