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Re: Lost floppy ??



on Sun, May 26, 2002, Eduard Bloch (edi@gmx.de) wrote:
> #include <hallo.h>
> Ted wrote on Sun May 26, 2002 um 12:40:17PM:
> 
> fdformat is old piece of crap. Use superformat.
> 
> > About to fdformat /dev/fd0u1722
> 
> Bad idea. These format makes problems with some hardware and some
> operating systems.

This is the device that Tom's Root Boot uses to pack 1.7 MiB of storage
onto what's nominally a 1.4 MiB floppy.  Actually, it's possible to go
as high as 1.9 MiB (/dev/fd0u1920), but this is pretty bloody
unreliable.  TRB is pretty reliable.

Peace.

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