> On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:19:17PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > > I think this is a BIOS issue. I don't think any BIOS will let you
> > > boot from arbitrarily-formatted floppies :)
> >
> > the 1480 format works.
>
> Have you got this working now - or was it the larger size that didn't
> work?
1480 always worked for me on the system i tried -- except on vmware.
i it was the 1720k format where i had problems which i could not
solve despite a number of different attempts at telling the
bios that i was using 21 sectors/track.
cheers
luigi
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