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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: PicoBSD & 1720K floppies
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 from Ferdinand Goldmann at "Apr 3, 2001 07:30:37 pm"
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> Has anyone managed to get PicoBSD to boot from larger floppy disks
> than 1440K?

it's a bios issue, you can hope to make the 1480 format work (it
did for me, not with vmware though) but none of the machines i have
tried is able to handle 21 sectors per track. This is the source
of the error you are seeing, and there is no straightforward
workaround implemented at the moemnt.

	cheers
	luigi

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