Date: Sat, 9 Sep 1995 13:47:24 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: higher density diskettes Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.91.950909134332.10702D-100000@nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <199509091231.OAA00799@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Sat, 9 Sep 1995, J Wunsch wrote: > 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.) the reason I did is because I have it on by default... fdformat (for dos) has a fdformat.cfg file... and I have it on by default... also... I'm not the knowledgable about floppies... I've heard the term GAP3 before... and know what it means but I have no idea what values should be set... > 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. no problem... I don't mind... but I must say I have disks with the stressed formats (1.72meg) on DD disk punched to HD... and I have heard the data is suppose to degrade... but I haven't had any troubles... and some disks are over a year old... 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)
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