Re: Extended floppy : summary
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 06:30:24PM +0100, Petr ?ech wrote:
> 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
It depends on how you count it. Ie, no one has still agreed on how much is 1
GB. Is it 1000000 kB or 1000 MB ? Or 1024 MB ??
Now the size of a floppy is 1044 kB for sure. People usually agree that 1 MB = 1024 kB
1044 kB / 1024 = 1.40 MB
>
> Petr Cech
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> <Myth> thats \\GNU\Linux$ to you
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