Date: Sat, 9 Sep 1995 07:05:11 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: higher density diskettes Message-ID: <199509090505.HAA16876@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.91.950908182858.6921A-100000@nike.efn.org> from "John-Mark Gurney" at Sep 8, 95 06:45:34 pm
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As John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > 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"... I don't know why you need to interleave a 3.5in floppy when formatting it to 15 sectors/track, simply put less sectors on it and increase the inter-sector gap (GAP3). All this aside, there's nothing in your program you could not have done with FreeBSD's fdformat program, too. (At least, not from the description you gave above.) -- 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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