17 Mar
2002
17 Mar
'02
11:22 a.m.
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
Alrighty then!
No, just DON'T use "High density" diskettes.
If you can find them, use diskettes rated for 720K usage.
The blanks I have are 3M "DS,DD Formatted Diskettes" IBM formatted at
360K. I gotta bunch, so a few failed formats won't stop the show.
'K. dd first, then 22disk if dd craps out.
Doc
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Doc wrote:
Oh, good. I was feeling very small.... ;^)
Erck. That distant splash you just heard was
the sound of Doc hitting
the bottom of the well. We passed the "All Greek To Me" phase awhile
back.
Sorry; some of the issues that came up do NOT matter for what you want to
do. So. The
"fd0h720" device on my Debian Linux machine is defined as
"/dev/fd0h720 5.25" 720K in a 1200K drive"
Perfect!
Will the 1.2M drive write reliable QD disks?
Note that I said "write
reliable" not "reliably write". Several tries is no biggie.
Yes!
(with the right blanks) 360K (AND "QD") is 300 Oerstedts; 1.2M is
600 Oerstedts.
Uh. OK. In dumbass terms, does that mean "no go"?
If you CAN'T fine them, use 360K diskettes. Most
of us have no problem
with using 360K diskettes, but SOME (including Tony) have had problems
with them. That might be due to his closer geographical proximity to
Stonehenge, or to the Greenwich meridian :-)
In Texas, you have to "hold your mouth right".
Or, if I had
a copy of 22disk (yeah, I'll google in a minute) I
suppose I could boot to DOS and do that. Does 22disk understand dd
images? (Andreas already cut to the chase & imaged a couple of trial
runs for me)
It should be able to do it without any problems.
If not, contact me off-list and I'll help you.