From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 9 00:12:12 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA05744 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 00:12:12 -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 AAA05711 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 00:12:00 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA16229 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 09:11:28 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA09143 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 09:11:27 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id HAA16876 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 07:05:11 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509090505.HAA16876@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: higher density diskettes To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Date: Sat, 9 Sep 1995 07:05:11 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "John-Mark Gurney" at Sep 8, 95 06:45:34 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: 977 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)