LS/120s (was Re: Ready to build 2.1.7)
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999 20:12:38 +0000 (GMT), stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk (Steve McIntyre) said:
> I've finally had a chance to look at the LS/120 stuff - superformat
> is evil in terms of what it assumes about / does with a floppy
> controller. I've tried hacking out the bits that I could see, but
> it broke badly. However, there is another way around this for
> formatting disks: mformat will make DOS-format 1.44 MB floppies on
> an LS/120 _if_ you give it all the parameters it needs. I've just
> tested this on my friend's machine and it works using the command
> line
> ./mformat -t80 -h2 -s18 a:
> if you sepcify that "a:" coressponds to /dev/hd<foo> for the ATAPI
> floppy. This means that we need to have mtools in the base system,
> though. And we also need to ask the user where their floppy drive is
> at some point during the install.
Ew, what's the point of using LS/120s if they just act like 14.4
floppies? I guess it's 14.4 or nothing? Could we optionally skip the
formatting step and assume the LS/120 floppy is properly formatted?
Otherwise, perhaps we have to treat them more like CDs then floppies;
is that an option?
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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