Re: higher format densities than 1.44MB
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 02:43:53AM +1000 , debian wrote:
> Regarding boot floppy size
>
> So you all realise that a 1.44MB is actually 2.0MB unformated.
> By using exotic formats you can have upto 1.92MB of usable space.
that's true, but usually tath floppy can be read in the same drive only,
which might or might not be a problem.
> 1.72MB works well, why limit the disk size 1.44MB ?
IMHO this was tried before slink release and abandoned. Propably not every
floppy drive can handle this.
Petr Čech
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Debian GNU/Linux maintainer - www.debian.{org,cz}
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