Thanks, Tierry, but
They are reliable on my computer. The thing is, I have to manually load the
parameters which otherwise the kernel should detect. That bothers me, and
frankly, Windows is better in that aspect.
Rudd-O
Thierry Vignaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> [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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> --Thierry
>
