Re: 1440

[Bruce Sass <bsass@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>]

On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Mark Blunier wrote:
> Some of us with older hardware have trouble with the funky formats.  For
> instance, on my old 486, a syslinux boot disk on a 1.44MB floppy usally
> takes 3 or 4 retries before it boots.  The 1.72MB floppy averages about
> a dozen retries for it to boot, and the 1920MB floppy is next to useless.
> On the other hand, the same disk will boot fine in my 486 laptop.

Sounds like you have a bad floppy drive in the one box.

I've been using 1920K or 1760k floppies exclusively for over a year and
have not had a problem aside from two or three bad disks (couldn't
format them without errors, even at 1.44M).  This box was built in 1990.


- Bruce