2 Jul
2009
2 Jul
'09
12:11 p.m.
The diskette unit of the Altos 586 is finally operative and tested with 5.25
diskettes of 360k and 1200k. I even did one backup with 'tar' in diskettes
of 1200k (8 units)
But of course you musn't use the instructions of the Xenix manual to put
operative a diskette... at least not EXACTLY
To being operative one diskette of 360k must be treated so:
format
option 2 (IBM AT slow format)
... and later:
mkfs /dev/fd0 360
For the 1200k diskettes:
format
option 3 (IBM AT fast format)
... and later:
mkfs /dev/fd096ds15 ? (not sure about the exact size to provide here)
Sergio