From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Given Subject: Re: howto start Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:29:51 +0000 Message-ID: <4F31517F.7040806@cowlark.com> References: <4F2F619A.7000608@jodybruchon.com> <4F30291D.5030908@telia.com> <4F312FF6.1070801@jodybruchon.com> <4F31395D.2040502@cowlark.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigFA441066896AB96B0AC92D43" Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: "linux-8086@vger.kernel.org" This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigFA441066896AB96B0AC92D43 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 =E2=94=8C=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 =EF=BD=84=EF=BD=87=EF=BC=A0=EF=BD=83= =EF=BD=8F=EF=BD=97=EF=BD=8C=EF=BD=81=EF=BD=92=EF=BD=8B=EF=BC=8E=EF=BD=83=EF= =BD=8F=EF=BD=8D =E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 http://www.= cowlark.com =E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 =E2=94=82 "I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as m= y =E2=94=82 telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure= out =E2=94=82 how to use my telephone." --- Bjarne Stroustrup --------------enigFA441066896AB96B0AC92D43 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk8xUX8ACgkQf9E0noFvlzh48QCfX1EBzgKJbcJOCQvzUDCkbQzT aCwAoNrx6TugZRtu9A23r7GiRQdoNSCI =uJgt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigFA441066896AB96B0AC92D43--