Re: new SLINK build question
On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 04:52:04PM -0700, ESBAM wrote:
>
> I've never even _heard_ of a 1.78Mb floppy disk until now.
>From /usr/doc/fdutils/README.gz:
: Although most drives support more than 80 tracks some may not, and
:repeatedly trying to read beyond track 80 might be damaging to them.
:In order to know wether your drive supports more than eighty tracks,
:first set the number of allowed tracks to 82.
<snip>
: N.B. I have yet to see a 3.5" drive which doesn't support 82 tracks.
:If you have such a beast, please mail me.
So I'm assuming that most drives support this, but the 1.743 format
requires 83 tracks, AFAICS. Question then is, does rawrite2 support beyond
track 80?
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