From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 8 14:45:14 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA07866 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 14:45:14 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA07860 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 14:45:10 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA26546 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 23:25:20 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA04924 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 23:25:20 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id XAA14958 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 23:24:36 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509082124.XAA14958@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: higher density diskettes To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 23:24:36 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509071748.TAA00266@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Sep 7, 95 07:48:18 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 944 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > I have a set of dos utils that allows you to format and use 1.72meg disks > > under dos... > Put it up in ftp://freefall.cdrom.com/incoming. The directory has been unwriteable last time i've been checking. Anyway, our current fdformat(8) can format almost any uniform format you can think of. The problem is that all those "high density" formats are non-uniform formats (sectors have different lengths across the track), which neither our current fd driver nor the BIOS will understand. Guys, don't be too excited about all this... it's not really worth it. Our goal is to provide an installation medium as "generic" as possible, i.e. it should fit onto a normal 1.2 MB floppy, and it should be ***standard***!, so no specific tools are required *anywhere*. -- 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. ;-)