From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jul 18 10:15:25 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA00830 for doc-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 10:15:25 -0700 Received: from emory.mathcs.emory.edu (emory.mathcs.emory.edu [128.140.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA00813 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 10:15:18 -0700 Received: from bagend.UUCP by emory.mathcs.emory.edu (5.65/Emory_mathcs.4.0.14) via UUCP id AA17489 ; Tue, 18 Jul 95 13:15:11 -0400 Received: by bagend.atl.ga.us (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0sYFrZ-0004pHC; Tue, 18 Jul 95 12:51 EDT Message-Id: From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Subject: Re: Quick start installation To: jfieber@grendel.csc.smith.edu (John Fieber) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 12:51:17 -0400 (EDT) Cc: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, doc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507181615.MAA19768@grendel.csc.smith.edu> from "John Fieber" at Jul 18, 95 12:15:45 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 820 Sender: doc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk John Fieber wrote: > 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? I thought about that just about the time the modem fired off the last message. I have not been a DOS weenie since running 2.11 on my Seatle Computer Products Gazelle, a 10MHz 8086/8087 S-100 system. Yea, S-100. It seemed like a good idea at the time. :) Anyway, as I recall, a 1.2 floppy uses 15 sectors/track and a 1.44 floppy uses 18 sectors/track. So that would be bs=15k or bs=18k. -- Jan Isley Heroes have the shelf life of cottage cheese, jan@bagend.atl.ga.us and public memory is shorter than Dudley Moore. -- Rheta Grimsley Johnson