Re: slink rescue disk

[David Stern <dstern@u.washington.edu>]

> How to you correctly make a slink rescue disk?
> 
> I downloaded resc1743.bin.  First I tried superformating a 1.743 disk
> and running rawrite2. No go.  Had trouble with anything past cyl 81.
> 
> Then I downloaded resc1743 to a hamm box and ran "dd if=resc1743.bin
> of=/dev/fd0u1743 bs=512 conv=sync ; sync".  Still no go.  Same problem
> with cyl 81+.

 man superformat

       The following example shows how to format a 1743K disk  in
       drive 0 (83 cylinders times 21 sectors):

          superformat /dev/fd0 sect=21 cyl=83

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David
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