From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 8 18:44:16 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA22839 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 18:44:16 -0700 Received: from efn.efn.org (root@efn.org [198.68.17.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA22833 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 1995 18:44:14 -0700 Received: from garcia.efn.org by efn.efn.org (4.1/smail2.5/05-07-92) id AA12672; Fri, 8 Sep 95 18:43:18 PDT Received: from nike.efn.org (haus.efn.org) by garcia.efn.org (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12252; Fri, 8 Sep 95 18:43:59 PDT Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 18:45:34 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney To: Christoph Kukulies Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: higher density diskettes In-Reply-To: <199509071748.TAA00266@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 7 Sep 1995, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > If you guys like I could upload the program for dos some where... It has > > a nice chart on what you can do, i.e. read the disk, with and without the > > special program... like you can read a 1.48meg disk without any driver > > loaded under dos... plus with it you can format your 5-1/2 floppies to > > 1.48megs... and that would be quite nice to set as the new top limit :) > > TTYL... > > Put it up in ftp://freefall.cdrom.com/incoming. done... the full url is ftp://freefall.cdrom.com/incoming/fdformat.zip the program to run to read the disks is fdread.exe... and the program to format is fdformat.exe... also... it has a nice ability to interleve sectors... this can dramaticly improve read times... esspessially when you format a 3-1/2HD floppy to 1.2meg (to diskcopy a 5-1/4HD)... I have no problems mounting the disk with freebsd with the command "mount_msdos /dev/fd0.1720 /mnt"... > > Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix) > ^^^^^^^ large empires tend to <'hey what is this word > in english for 'kollabieren''?> in time by themselves? I have no idea... TTYL... John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org Modem/FAX: (503) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)