Re: new SLINK build question

1998-11-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "BC" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BC> So I'm assuming that most drives support this, but the 1.743 BC> format requires 83 tracks, AFAICS. Question then is, does rawrite2 BC> support beyond track 80? There are 1.44 images, but the maintainers netlink is very crappy at the moment,

Re: new SLINK build question

1998-11-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 04:52:04PM -0700, ESBAM wrote: > > I've never even _heard_ of a 1.78Mb floppy disk until now. >From /usr/doc/fdutils/README.gz: : Although most drives support more than 80 tracks some may not, and :repeatedly trying to read beyond track 80 might be damaging to them. :In o

new SLINK build question

1998-11-24 Thread ESBAM
Can anyone in Debian land tell me why the new 2.1.0 build in all directories has base system disks that are 1.22 and 1.44 Mb compliant, but has rescue disks that are 1.78Mb ??? I've never even _heard_ of a 1.78Mb floppy disk until now. Not only that, but after doing a search in some hardware cata