Re: /dev/fd0u1743 help

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

#include <hallo.h>
Alvin Oga wrote on Fri Jul 27, 2001 um 03:17:47PM:

> superformat will format 1.44mb floppies to 1.77 or higher if needed

Yes, you can get 1920kB with superformat. Unfortunately, this format is
very slow (since complicated to read) and cannot boot. 1743 is the
common denominator, useable on Wind~1 too. And 1760kB ist the biggest
bootable format, AFAIK.

> you can also modify the default mke2fs options to allow more data 
> ( not as much overhead .. sometimes the extra 100 bytes is all you needed)

Then you better take minix, it has even less overhead.

Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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