Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 22:51:49 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> Cc: Alexander Prohorenko <white@extra.dp.ua>, questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fd1720 Message-ID: <20001222225149.A1924@buffy.local> In-Reply-To: <200012221652.eBMGqqf77392@iguana.aciri.org>; from rizzo@aciri.org on Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 08:52:52AM -0800 References: <20001222182112.A11268@extra.dp.ua> <200012221652.eBMGqqf77392@iguana.aciri.org>
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On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 08:52:52AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > Hey. > > > > 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. > Note also that if you have bad luck you can physically break the floppy drive doing this :( You have been warned ! Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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