From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Blaz Antonic Subject: Re: Forthcoming 0.1.0 release Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:02:12 -0700 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3CC95DE4.77E@havn.com> References: Reply-To: blaz.antonic@havn.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: erich alfred heine Cc: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org > And couple of quick question from my personal experiences: > Is there any way to tell what capacity of disk your fdd likes? Im booting > from a 1.44 MB floppy, but I really dont know if my disk drive is 720K and > playing nicely or what. All that extra disk space would be NICE (i could > even use my laptop as laptop and take it places, and make people look at > me funny!) I'm not sure what exactly you want to know; if your system boots from 1.44 formatted floppy that means you have a drive that supports (at least) 1.44 MB media. 720 KB has only 9 sectors per track whereas 1.44 MB medium has 18 sectors per track - if your drive was 720 KB and your boot floppy was 1.44 MB it wouldn't be able to read track 0, let alone all other tracks (and therefore wouldn't be able to boot). Probe code should be able to determine size of the medium currently inserted in your drive (so if your drive supports 1.44 MB media and you put 720 KB floppy in it it should work just fine, same goes for 2.88 MB drives and media of smaller formats). IMO, that is. Blaz Antonic