Date: Sat, 9 Sep 1995 00:51:48 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: higher density diskettes Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.91.950909005031.7406A-100000@nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <199509090505.HAA16876@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Sat, 9 Sep 1995, J Wunsch wrote: > As John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > > > done... the full url is ftp://freefall.cdrom.com/incoming/fdformat.zip the > > program to run to read the disks is fdread.exe... and the program to > > format is fdformat.exe... also... it has a nice ability to interleve > > sectors... this can dramaticly improve read times... esspessially when > > you format a 3-1/2HD floppy to 1.2meg (to diskcopy a 5-1/4HD)... I have > > no problems mounting the disk with freebsd with the command "mount_msdos > > /dev/fd0.1720 /mnt"... > > 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). All this aside, there's nothing in your > program you could not have done with FreeBSD's fdformat program, too. > (At least, not from the description you gave above.) well... I haven't ever used freebsd's fdformat program... and also... I came across these set of programs before I even thought of installing a unix... so I am comfortable with the program... also... I don't have a floppy drive on my unix machine... I only put one on when I need on... 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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