Jackman wrote: > I thought the Amiga's used that crazy formatting method that the > Apples were also culpable of? Oddball sector sizes or some > nonsense... > > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:33 PM, David Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm kinda rusty on floppy disks but I think the 800k issue is something you >> can solve by putting a piece of tape over the corner hole... not the >> read-write lock, but the other one. >> Or is this a different issue than the one I'm remembering?... :) >> -David >> >> From: Joseph Weston Morgan <[email protected]> >> Reply To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <[email protected]> >> To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <[email protected]> >> Date: Monday, May 23, 2011 12:04:24 PM >> Subject: [Eug-lug] floppy disk >> >> >> >> I cannot figure out how to format a floppy disk that is both acceptable >> to either XP, or Linux and Amiga. There are still a few things to get >> off of the old Amiga 500, but the floppies need to be formated to at >> most 880kb and I cannot figure out how to dumb the format command down >> to this level. >> >> Wes >> Here is an interesting read on (3.5") floppies that may help <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#3.C2.BD-inch_floppy_disk> Another quick google leads me to believe that ... 720 kb is IBM compatible 800 kb is Apple 880 kb is Amiga ... so you may be facing a bit of a challenge doing what you have stated (don't take my word for it).
A quick look on my system (Mandriva 2008.0) suggest that it may not understand 800 or 880 kb drives ... I have only ever tried MS compatible formats, and even that not in a long time. It might be easier to transfer the files via ftp, or something? Regards Fred James _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
