From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 23 4:15:43 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 23 04:15:39 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tao.org.uk (genesis.tao.org.uk [194.242.131.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AA5837B400; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 04:15:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id 2CAE13224; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 12:15:35 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 12:15:35 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: Luigi Rizzo , Alexander Prohorenko , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fd1720 Message-ID: <20001223121535.B621@tao.org.uk> References: <20001222182112.A11268@extra.dp.ua> <200012221652.eBMGqqf77392@iguana.aciri.org> <20001222225149.A1924@buffy.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001222225149.A1924@buffy.local>; from cliff@raggedclown.net on Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 10:51:49PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 10:51:49PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 08:52:52AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > Hey. > > > > > > 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. > > > Note also that if you have bad luck you can physically break the floppy drive > doing this :( > You have been warned ! I've never seen a drive broken by this. I used to use 11 sec/82 track formats years ago under cp/m systems. :) [It's really useful having the code to the O/S] Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message