> > So how about a options flag on the floppy driver which translates
> > block addresses beyond 1440K into the "extra" sectors? I don't
> > know that there's a "clean" way insert that into the driver, just
> > glancing at the code..
>
> that is another possibility, yes. But it still remains the challenge
> of controlling how the filesystem code allocates blocks to
> make sure that the first things you write really end up into
> the "initial" part of the disk so the bios can boot from it.
Depending on the shape of the files you need to have on the disk, you
could split this between two FreeBSD partitions (/dev/fd0a and /dev/fd0d
or something), with the second partition being the bizzaro extra sectors.
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