On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 08:52:52AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > Hey.
> >
> > Did anybody suceed with fd1720 flopies ? I couldn't write any single
> > 1720K image there.
>
> you must fdformat /dev/fd0.1720 (check syntax) first, otherwise
> the write fails when it hits the first sector (sec.19 track 0) which
> is supposed to be there but is not
>
> Note that almost surely you won't be able to boot from that disk.
>
Note also that if you have bad luck you can physically break the floppy drive
doing this :(
You have been warned !
Cliff
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