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Date:      Sun, 10 Sep 1995 00:20:34 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: higher density diskettes
Message-ID:  <199509092220.AAA18507@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.91.950909134332.10702D-100000@nike.efn.org> from "John-Mark Gurney" at Sep 9, 95 01:47:24 pm

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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. ;-)



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