From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 9 05:51:58 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id FAA16086 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 05:51:58 -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 FAA16064 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 05:51:53 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id OAA21178 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 14:51:50 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id OAA10863 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 14:51:50 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA00799 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 14:31:36 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509091231.OAA00799@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: higher density diskettes To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Date: Sat, 9 Sep 1995 14:31:35 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "John-Mark Gurney" at Sep 9, 95 00:51:48 am 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: 949 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > > 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). > well... I haven't ever used freebsd's fdformat program... [...] Ok, but why do you want to interleave a floppy with _less_ sectors per track on it? (I know that you have to interleave it if you put _more_ sectors on it, ie. you're effectively abusing every other sector as GAP3 for the previous one.) Sorry if i've been annoying you with my previous mail, but i'd like to prevent people from faithfully believe into these heavily stressed formats; i personally consider them dangerous, and i'm not alone here. I'd also like to avoid the impression that it were some substantially new idea. -- 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. ;-)