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Date:      Tue, 18 Jul 1995 12:15:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:      jfieber@grendel.csc.smith.edu (John Fieber)
To:        jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley)
Cc:        kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Quick start installation
Message-ID:  <199507181615.MAA19768@grendel.csc.smith.edu>
In-Reply-To: <m0sYE1x-0004pHC@bagend.atl.ga.us> from "Jan Isley" at Jul 18, 95 10:53:52 am

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Jan Isley writes:
> is pretty darn simple.  On every system I have played with, not
> using bs=18k makes the write take so much longer you are sitting
> there wondering if something has gone wrong.

Forgive me for asking a stupid question (but I went from CP/M -->
Amiga --> PC, and the phonomena of 1.2MB came and went during my
Amiga years) but is this block size appropriate for 1.2MB
floppies as well?

-john

=== jfieber@cs.smith.edu ========== Come up and be a kite!  --K. Bush ===



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