From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 22 16:18:38 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 22 16:18:35 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iguana.aciri.org (iguana.aciri.org [192.150.187.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AF3137B400; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:18:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rizzo@localhost) by iguana.aciri.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBN00rB79870; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:00:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rizzo) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200012230000.eBN00rB79870@iguana.aciri.org> Subject: Re: fd1720 In-Reply-To: <20001222225149.A1924@buffy.local> from Cliff Sarginson at "Dec 22, 2000 10:51:49 pm" To: cliff@raggedclown.net (Cliff Sarginson) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:00:53 -0800 (PST) Cc: rizzo@aciri.org, white@extra.dp.ua, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: rizzo@iguana.aciri.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Note that almost surely you won't be able to boot from that disk. > > > Note also that if you have bad luck you can physically break the floppy drive > doing this :( if so, that will also happen with the '1480' format, which uses the same 82 tracks. Fact is, any decent drive is not supposed to break just because you ask it to move the head too far away, it should just stop and return some kind of error. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message