Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 12:51:17 -0400 (EDT) From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) To: jfieber@grendel.csc.smith.edu (John Fieber) Cc: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quick start installation Message-ID: <m0sYFrZ-0004pHC@bagend.atl.ga.us> In-Reply-To: <199507181615.MAA19768@grendel.csc.smith.edu> from "John Fieber" at Jul 18, 95 12:15:45 pm
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John Fieber wrote:
> Forgive me for asking a stupid question (but I went from CP/M -->
> Amiga --> PC, and the phonomena of 1.2MB came and went during my
> Amiga years) but is this block size appropriate for 1.2MB
> floppies as well?
I thought about that just about the time the modem fired off the
last message. I have not been a DOS weenie since running 2.11 on
my Seatle Computer Products Gazelle, a 10MHz 8086/8087 S-100 system.
Yea, S-100. It seemed like a good idea at the time. :)
Anyway, as I recall, a 1.2 floppy uses 15 sectors/track and a 1.44
floppy uses 18 sectors/track. So that would be bs=15k or bs=18k.
--
Jan Isley Heroes have the shelf life of cottage cheese,
jan@bagend.atl.ga.us and public memory is shorter than Dudley Moore.
-- Rheta Grimsley Johnson
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