On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 10:51:49PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 08:52:52AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > > Hey.
> > >
> > > Did anybody suceed with fd1720 flopies ? I couldn't write any single
> > > 1720K image there.
> >
> > you must fdformat /dev/fd0.1720 (check syntax) first, otherwise
> > the write fails when it hits the first sector (sec.19 track 0) which
> > is supposed to be there but is not
> >
> > Note that almost surely you won't be able to boot from that disk.
> >
> Note also that if you have bad luck you can physically break the floppy drive
> doing this :(
> You have been warned !
I've never seen a drive broken by this. I used to use 11 sec/82 track
formats years ago under cp/m systems. :) [It's really useful having
the code to the O/S]
Joe
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