Floppy woes ...

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Wed Jul 4 13:34:24 2001

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Geoff Reed wrote:

> the only time i've used loaddskf is to generate PS/2 reference disks
> downloaded from ibm on a 3 1/2 inch drive.

It is functional for both 5.25" and 3.5" disks dependent upon which size
and format disk the image was made from, but will not translate. It
might be possible to fool it into thinking that a 3.5" was a 5.25"
1.2mb, but you might need to change it in CMOS.

Hmmm! I wonder if it will work with 8"?
                                                 - don



>
> At 08:03 AM 7/3/01 -0400, you wrote:
> > > Question 1: What the heck is up with loaddskf? Has anybody
> > > run into problems with it when dealing with raw binary images?
> > > It's supposed to work ... :-)
> >
> >
> >I've never used it with anything other than 3 1/2 inch drives.
> >Perhaps it has a table of drive types it supports...and only
> >works with them.
> >
> >The only way to tell is to disassemble it and see.
> >
> >Bill
> >---
> > Bill Gates is a Persian cat and a monocle away from being a
> > villain in a James Bond movie -- Dennis Miller
> > bpechter_at_shell.monmouth.com|pechter_at_pechter.dyndns.org
>
>
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