Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:56:25 -0700 From: Dragos Ruiu <dr@dursec.com> To: shansen@earthlink.net, "Skip Hansen" <shansen@earthlink.net>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: oversized floppies for picobsd? Message-ID: <0006281558390D.08731@smp.kyx.net> In-Reply-To: <395A1DCC.6061.1F9EEE5@localhost> References: <395A1DCC.6061.1F9EEE5@localhost>
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I dunno... I've had good luck with tomsrtbt over the last couple of years.... I haven't found a single floppy that couldn't read this. BTW.... I think a good image format is a 2.88 master image for a bootable CD! cheers, --dr On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Skip Hansen wrote: > 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/ > -- dursec.com ltd. / kyx.net - we're from the future http://www.dursec.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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