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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: howto access an oddly shaped partition on a floppy ?
In-Reply-To: <27657.984135635@critter> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Mar 9, 2001
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> It would be possible to teach the floppy driver that cyl 0-9 has
> 18 sectors while cyl10-81 has 21.

this would only work after the kernel has control, and the kernel
needs far more than 10 cylinders...

	cheers
	luigi

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