From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 9 18:22:08 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA08494 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 18:22:08 -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 SAA08486 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 18:22:04 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id DAA09922 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 1995 03:21:58 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id DAA16316 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Sep 1995 03:21:58 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id AAA18507 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Sep 1995 00:20:36 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509092220.AAA18507@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: higher density diskettes To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 00:20:34 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "John-Mark Gurney" at Sep 9, 95 01:47:24 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: 839 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As John-Mark Gurney wrote: > [floppy format w/ interleave] > 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... Do you know that it will cause a performance degradation for regular (i.e., non-stressed) formats? > ... 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.. One year is no age. Get back after 5 years. I can still read all my CP/M floppies... Go and read them on different drives... -- 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. ;-)