From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 22 9:40:56 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 22 09:40:53 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from onyx.extra.dp.ua (onyx.extra.dp.ua [195.248.182.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDC2037B400; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:40:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from white@localhost) by onyx.extra.dp.ua (8.10.0/8.10.0/Who.Cares) id eBMHeTf12636; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 19:40:29 +0200 (EET) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 19:40:29 +0200 From: Alexander Prohorenko To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fd1720 Message-ID: <20001222194029.C11268@extra.dp.ua> 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/1.3.9i In-Reply-To: <200012221652.eBMGqqf77392@iguana.aciri.org>; from rizzo@aciri.org on Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 08:52:52AM -0800 Organization: Extra Solutions X-Operating-System: SunOS 5.7 i86pc Sender: white@onyx.extra.dp.ua 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: > > 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. Luigi. Thank you, your advise was very helpfull. However, I supposed to boot from it, but didn't get anyting except the FreeBSD BOOT loader. That's bad. I miss about 30KB on a usual fd1440 diskette to run my PicoBSD build on, that's why I'm digging into this format. Can you suggest me something in this case? Looks like FreeBSD BOOT loader doesn't know anything about disk partitioning for such "stressed" formats. -- Alexander Prohorenko, Extra Solutions http://extra.com.ua "Good day to be alive, sir" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message