[ILUG] Floppy problems

[Brian Foster]

  | From: Niall O Broin <niall at linux.ie>
  | Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 11:18:03 +0100
  | 
  | On 5 Apr 2005, at 10:59, Kevin Philp wrote:
  |  > 2. Is there some Win/Linux incompatibility with very old machines?
  | I don't think so - floppy format is reasonably set in stone.  [ ... ]

 Niall is correct, on bog-standard PCs, the physical
 flippy format is solidly set in concrete.  so this
 is not yer problem.  I concur with Niall's guess it
 is probably a head-alignment issue (especially if
 the initial error is being issued by the flippy
 driver, not by dd(1) or the (v)fat "filesystem").

 the only different physical formats I know of were all
 on machines that both did not run M$-DoS and could not
 be considered “bog-standard”.  the Victor 9000 and the
 AT&T 63xx(?) both come to mind here.  (so does the
 Apple Lisa, but I may be confused by its add-on HDD,
 whose physical format was weird with 528-byte physical
 sectors; I cannot specially recall if the Apple Lisa's
 flippies were weirdly physically formatted or not?)

cheers!
	-blf-
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