Re: fd -superformat

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

The Apple/Mac floppy disk drives were very different pieces of hardware 
from PC floppy drives, even though they used the same physical media.

Superformat uses PC-specific hardware features.  I'd be very surprised 
if you could get it to work with a Mac floppy drive.

Bottom line is that the OldWorld Mac install floppies are hard limited 
at the 1440KB size, and there is no way 'round it.

Rick


On Jan 8, 2006, at 7:14 PM, Eugen Paiuc wrote:

> Eugen Paiuc a écrit :
>
> > Salut,
> >
> > Comme les derniere images floppy pour powerpc "don't fit" in a normal 
> > 1440 floppy,
> > - et comme c'est la seul metode que j'outilise pour instaler mes 
> > oldword - 3x -
> > je me pose la question si on peux pas "superformate" ces disquettes a 
> > la mulinux.
> > Par exemple
> >
> > superformat -s21 -t83 /dev/fd0  # making a  1743K disk
> >  dd if=mulinux.img of=/dev/fd0
> >
> > superformat -s21 -t82 /dev/fd0  # making a  1722K disk
> >  dd if=mulinux.img of=/dev/fd0
> >
> > http://mulinux.dotsrc.org/mu/current/mulinux-14r0.tgz
> >
> > Merci pour votre attention.
> >
> > Salutations
> >
> > Eugen Paiuc
> Hi Sven,
>
> I send you - in private - this email , few days ago, suggesting  of 
> useing
> of superformat in prepare floppy for > 1474560  case.
>
> regards,
>
> Eugen Paiuc