From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 13 23:01:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA01943 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 23:01:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kevin.sunshine.net (pme38.sunshine.net [204.191.205.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA01938 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 23:01:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by kevin.sunshine.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA00502; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 22:54:20 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: kevin.sunshine.net: cagey owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 22:54:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Eliuk X-Sender: cagey@kevin.sunshine.net To: Alan Batie cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1.7 meg floppies? In-Reply-To: <19970713224412.02439@rdrop.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Alan Batie wrote: > I'm told Microsoft, at least at one time, distributed software on floppies > formatted to 1.7 Meg as a form of copy protection (no one could generate > that format, I guess). Has anyone heard of this? Is there a way to get > FreeBSD to do such a thing? It would probably be enough to allow me to > make a new version of freertr based on current software... Thanks... > -- > Alan Batie ______ It's not my fault! It's some guy > batie@agora.rdrop.com \ / named "General Protection"! > +1 503 452-0960 \ / --Ratbert > PGP FP: DE 3C 29 17 C0 49 \/ 7A 27 40 A5 3C 37 4A DA 52 B9 > > It is my policy to avoid purchase of any products from companies which > use unrequested email advertisements or telephone solicitation. Yep, read the header in /etc/disktab and use the settings # # Stressed floppy-formats. No guarantees given. # fd1720:\ :ty=floppy:se#512:nt#2:rm#300:ns#21:nc#82:\ :pa#3444:oa#0:ba#4096:fa#512:\ :pb#3444:ob#0:bb#4096:fb#512:\ :pc#3444:oc#0:bc#4096:fc#512: -- =| Regards, =| FreeBSD ==> http://www.FreeBSD.org =| Kevin G. Eliuk =| "Free at last, free at last, ...." British Columbia *BSD User Directory ==> http://www.cynic.net