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Well, this gets me further. "rawrite2 -f resc1743.bin -d a:" writes all
cylanders but returns a bad sector message at the end of the run. When I
try to boot from this disk I get "Boot Failed".
Suggestions?
David Stern wrote:
> > 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
>
> --
> David
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> dstern@u.washington.edu
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