Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 14:26:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: higher density diskettes Message-ID: <199509081226.OAA12898@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199509080645.QAA01164@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Sep 8, 95 04:15:44 pm
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As Michael Smith wrote: > > Does the BIOS actually rangecheck the sector numbers you try to read? > Talk about a nuisance 8( (As suggestions go, it wasn't a bad one) The BIOS has rather conservative assumptions about the sectors to load (it uses some table in the BIOS data area to initialize the FDC). It's unable to handle floppies like: size: 1024 - 512 - 2048 - 8192 sector ID: 131 130 132 134 (This is OS/2's XDF format.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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