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Re: Extended floppy : summary



On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 06:22:40AM -0700 , Edward Betts wrote:
> Thierry Laronde <thierry@cri74.org> wrote:
> > 1) Because these formats are unusual, the BIOS doesn't automagically
> > recognize them, and try to access them as normal 1.44 Mb floppies -> you
> > need a bootloader to manage the format, and dd'ing Linux can not work
> 
> I might be wrong, but I do not think that normal floppy are in size 1.44Mb,
> they are 1.40Mb.

on Apple I think. PCs use 1.44MB

				Petr Cech
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Debian GNU/Linux maintainer - www.debian.{org,cz}
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