From owner-freebsd-small Wed Jun 28 15:45:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (ha1.rdc2.occa.home.com [24.2.8.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7912537B73C for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:45:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shansen@earthlink.net) Received: from p2 ([24.9.137.53]) by mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000628224506.UJYL20009.mail.rdc2.occa.home.com@p2> for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:45:06 -0700 From: "Skip Hansen" To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:46:20 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: oversized floppies for picobsd? Reply-To: shansen@earthlink.net Message-ID: <395A1DCC.6061.1F9EEE5@localhost> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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