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Date:      Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:00:53 -0800 (PST)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
To:        cliff@raggedclown.net (Cliff Sarginson)
Cc:        rizzo@aciri.org, white@extra.dp.ua, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fd1720
Message-ID:  <200012230000.eBN00rB79870@iguana.aciri.org>
In-Reply-To: <20001222225149.A1924@buffy.local> from Cliff Sarginson at "Dec 22, 2000 10:51:49 pm"

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> > 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 :(

if so, that will also happen with the '1480' format, which uses the same
82 tracks. Fact is, any decent drive is not supposed to break just
because you ask it to move the head too far away, it should just
stop and return some kind of error.

	cheers
	luigi


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