[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've set up with mknod a device file for formatting 1743 KB floppies, and
> after I do fdformat /dev/fd0H1743, i can mount them normally. However after
> unmounting and mounting an 1.44 floppy, unmounting it and remounting the 1743
> floppy, it doesn't recognize it (ie it mounts it but when I try to dir its
> contents, only garbage comes out, along with a message that the FAT is
> corrupted, which is not, because Windows can read it).
>
> I've tried floppycontrol, setfdprm -c /dev/fd0 to see how it recognizes it,
> then mounting it, and when it mounts, it determines the floppy as the first
> type I set with floppycontrol, never as the appropriate type.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
larger floppies are not reliable, they are readable on some driver and
not on other.
A safe way to create a large disk is "mformat -h 2 -t 82 -s 21 a:" then
mbadblock it in order to check it
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