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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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