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Date:      Fri, 22 Dec 2000 22:51:49 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
Cc:        Alexander Prohorenko <white@extra.dp.ua>, questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fd1720
Message-ID:  <20001222225149.A1924@buffy.local>
In-Reply-To: <200012221652.eBMGqqf77392@iguana.aciri.org>; from rizzo@aciri.org on Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 08:52:52AM -0800
References:  <20001222182112.A11268@extra.dp.ua> <200012221652.eBMGqqf77392@iguana.aciri.org>

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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


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