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From: deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Hans-Christoph Deeken)
Subject: Re: How to format UNIX floppies under 386BSD
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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 12:20:18 GMT
References: <1992Sep24.142441.17045@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> <1992Sep24.113641.36338@news.th-darmstadt.de> <19usrhINN222@disaster.Germany.EU.net>
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In article <19usrhINN222@disaster.Germany.EU.net>, bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes:
> NACK
>
> 386bsd is not up to low-level formatting floppies, i.e. makeing the magnetic
> particles on the floppy cuddle together to make blocks and tracks.
OOOOOPS! Boy, is my face red!
I just remembered that the floppies I have at home are preformatted... :-}
Oh well... anyone modifying fd.c to do it? :)
> -Bernard
Sorry,
Hannes
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