Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 06:16:14 -0800 From: Charlie Baysinger <ootws@usa.net> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> Cc: small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: non-standard floppy formats ? Message-ID: <00120706161401.46204@nworld2.ootws.com> In-Reply-To: <200012070036.eB70a2X00376@iguana.aciri.org> References: <200012070036.eB70a2X00376@iguana.aciri.org>
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On Wednesday 06 December 2000 16:36, Luigi Rizzo wrote: : Hi, : i was trying to make picobsd work with non-standard floppy : formats (1722k specifically), but i am having a hard time. : Basically, the boot2 code says "Not ufs", i think this is : because it tries to read from the disk using the BIOS : and the BIOS only knows about the 80 track/18 sector : format, and not the 82*21 format used for 1722k. Am i correct ? I saw an interesting post on from Tom who does a 1722 linux disk. His take on it was that the BOIS had problems doing a 21 sector read, not reading sector 21 specifically and he has never seen one that couldn't read sector 21. Maybe it has something to do with how the loader is reading the disk ? : : This is really bad because in the additional 300K there would : be a lot of stuff one could squeeze in. : I agree -- Charlie Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. -- Beckett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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