From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 22 14:30:24 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 22 14:30:21 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C350C37B400; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 14:30:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 149ahb-0007f9-00; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 22:30:15 +0000 Received: (from cliff@localhost) by buffy.raggedclown (8.10.2/8.10.2) id eBMLpnC01970; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 22:51:49 +0100 Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 22:51:49 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: Alexander Prohorenko , questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fd1720 Message-ID: <20001222225149.A1924@buffy.local> References: <20001222182112.A11268@extra.dp.ua> <200012221652.eBMGqqf77392@iguana.aciri.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200012221652.eBMGqqf77392@iguana.aciri.org>; from rizzo@aciri.org on Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 08:52:52AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 08:52:52AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > Hey. > > > > Did anybody suceed with fd1720 flopies ? I couldn't write any single > > 1720K image there. > > you must fdformat /dev/fd0.1720 (check syntax) first, otherwise > the write fails when it hits the first sector (sec.19 track 0) which > is supposed to be there but is not > > Note that almost surely you won't be able to boot from that disk. > Note also that if you have bad luck you can physically break the floppy drive doing this :( You have been warned ! Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message