Hi Jayden, (please use SPACES after punctuation - I added them below already...) > Question about the way our new kernel will handle floppy disks. I recently
Probably not a kernel issue and also, which "new kernel" do you mean? > got my hands on a lot of unopened micro floppy disks, with a 1 MB storage That is an unusual size for a floppy, I would say. How many inch? > capacity. When I ran FORMAT on one in FreeDOS, it threw an error. It couldn't > be formatted with FAT, due to a "Bad track" and some other things. I am aware Are you sure that your BIOS supports that size of floppy? > that MICRODISKS are older than FLOPPYDISKS (Althought the difference > visually is almost none). Is there a way to use microdisks on So basically they might have been too old to be still working ;-) > FreeDOS/Windows? They are listed with a RAW filesystem on both Windows > and FreeDOS. Does our kernel support these types of disks? The kernel does not really care, you have to ask your BIOS (modern BIOS may support only 1.44 MB) and the FORMAT tool. Maybe you can find an old DOS FORMAT tool which still knows what "micro" floppy disk are? Which capacity should those have? How many tracks? How many sectors per track? One side or both sides? How many bytes per sectro? What other specs? Cheers, Eric PS: I think it is good to have multiple memory managers as AVAILABLE drivers in FreeDOS 1.2, but I would install only one (set) of them active in config sys. For example HIMEMX with some boot option to also load JEMM386. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
