From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 9 00:50:20 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA06253 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 00:50:20 -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 AAA06247 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 00:50:18 -0700 Received: from garcia.efn.org by efn.efn.org (4.1/smail2.5/05-07-92) id AA05300; Sat, 9 Sep 95 00:49:22 PDT Received: from nike.efn.org (garcia.efn.org) by garcia.efn.org (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04434; Sat, 9 Sep 95 00:50:09 PDT Date: Sat, 9 Sep 1995 00:51:48 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: higher density diskettes In-Reply-To: <199509090505.HAA16876@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 9 Sep 1995, J Wunsch wrote: > 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.) well... I haven't ever used freebsd's fdformat program... and also... I came across these set of programs before I even thought of installing a unix... so I am comfortable with the program... also... I don't have a floppy drive on my unix machine... I only put one on when I need on... 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)