From: David Given <dg@cowlark.com>
To: "linux-8086@vger.kernel.org" <linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: howto start
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:29:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F31517F.7040806@cowlark.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMKR1ysKw2SaGObU38Gv8Sh1GMkxjRRkc7wwNPvNDKAa7Z=0pw@mail.gmail.com>
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Kirn Gill wrote:
> A 1.44MB disk can be low-level formatted using the Linux "fdformat"
> program to have the physical layout of a 720KB disk.
Whoops, sorry --- you're absolutely right. 720kB heads *are* the same
width as 1440kB heads (they use different numbers of sectors per track).
I was confusing it with 40-track vs 80-track, which is a different but
equally obselete era. Ignore what I said earlier.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-07 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-06 5:14 ELKS CVS imported into Git with all history Jody
2012-02-06 11:48 ` howto start kqt4at5v
[not found] ` <4F30291D.5030908@telia.com>
2012-02-07 12:08 ` kqt4at5v
2012-02-07 14:06 ` Jody
2012-02-07 14:46 ` David Given
[not found] ` <CAMKR1ysKw2SaGObU38Gv8Sh1GMkxjRRkc7wwNPvNDKAa7Z=0pw@mail.gmail.com>
2012-02-07 16:29 ` David Given [this message]
2012-02-07 18:48 ` kqt4at5v
2012-02-07 20:02 ` kqt4at5v
2012-02-07 14:49 ` ELKS CVS imported into Git with all history Harley Laue
2012-02-07 21:38 ` Jody Bruchon
2012-02-08 0:15 ` David Given
2012-02-08 2:56 ` Kirn Gill
2012-02-08 21:28 ` Juan Perez-Sanchez
2012-02-09 2:53 ` Harley Laue
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