Re: fd -superformat
The Apple/Mac floppy disk drives were very different pieces of hardware from PC floppy drives, even though they used the same physical media. Superformat uses PC-specific hardware features. I'd be very surprised if you could get it to work with a Mac floppy drive. Bottom line is that the OldWorld Mac install floppies are hard limited at the 1440KB size, and there is no way 'round it. Rick On Jan 8, 2006, at 7:14 PM, Eugen Paiuc wrote: Eugen Paiuc a écrit : Salut, Comme les derniere images floppy pour powerpc "don't fit" in a normal 1440 floppy, - et comme c'est la seul metode que j'outilise pour instaler mes oldword - 3x - je me pose la question si on peux pas "superformate" ces disquettes a la mulinux. Par exemple superformat -s21 -t83 /dev/fd0 # making a 1743K disk dd if=mulinux.img of=/dev/fd0 superformat -s21 -t82 /dev/fd0 # making a 1722K disk dd if=mulinux.img of=/dev/fd0 http://mulinux.dotsrc.org/mu/current/mulinux-14r0.tgz Merci pour votre attention. Salutations Eugen Paiuc Hi Sven, I send you - in private - this email , few days ago, suggesting of useing of superformat in prepare floppy for > 1474560 case. regards, Eugen Paiuc
Re: fd -superformat
Hi there... On Jan 09 2006, Sven Luther wrote: > Well, if you can make it work and provide a patch, why not ? I don't know if this still is the case, but this talk about superformat and floppies brought to my memory the fact that mtools didn't work with the swim3 driver in recent 2.6 kernels (that controller is used in the PowerMac that I have here). The last time I tried using it here was during the 2.6.11 era and things must have changed quite a bit since then... I remember that Vinai sent me a patch, but I didn't have the chance to give it a try. I remember he saying that it wasn't SMP safe, but that it solved his problems. I will re-check the situation and report back with what I see in current kernels. Regards, Rogério. P.S.: I will also test the state of mol, as soon as I get some spare time. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fd -superformat
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 01:14:03AM +0100, Eugen Paiuc wrote: > Eugen Paiuc a écrit : > > >Salut, > > > >Comme les derniere images floppy pour powerpc "don't fit" in a normal > >1440 floppy, > >- et comme c'est la seul metode que j'outilise pour instaler mes > >oldword - 3x - > >je me pose la question si on peux pas "superformate" ces disquettes a > >la mulinux. > >Par exemple > > > >superformat -s21 -t83 /dev/fd0 # making a 1743K disk > > dd if=mulinux.img of=/dev/fd0 > > > >superformat -s21 -t82 /dev/fd0 # making a 1722K disk > > dd if=mulinux.img of=/dev/fd0 > > > >http://mulinux.dotsrc.org/mu/current/mulinux-14r0.tgz > > > >Merci pour votre attention. > > > >Salutations > > > >Eugen Paiuc > > > Hi Sven, > > I send you - in private - this email , few days ago, suggesting of useing > of superformat in prepare floppy for > 1474560 case. Well, if you can make it work and provide a patch, why not ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fd -superformat
Eugen Paiuc a écrit : Salut, Comme les derniere images floppy pour powerpc "don't fit" in a normal 1440 floppy, - et comme c'est la seul metode que j'outilise pour instaler mes oldword - 3x - je me pose la question si on peux pas "superformate" ces disquettes a la mulinux. Par exemple superformat -s21 -t83 /dev/fd0 # making a 1743K disk dd if=mulinux.img of=/dev/fd0 superformat -s21 -t82 /dev/fd0 # making a 1722K disk dd if=mulinux.img of=/dev/fd0 http://mulinux.dotsrc.org/mu/current/mulinux-14r0.tgz Merci pour votre attention. Salutations Eugen Paiuc Hi Sven, I send you - in private - this email , few days ago, suggesting of useing of superformat in prepare floppy for > 1474560 case. regards, Eugen Paiuc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
