[Coco] Re: Re: Disk Basic and 512 byte block floppies.

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 20 January 2004 00:15, Roger Taylor wrote:
>At 11:47 PM 1/19/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>>That said, there is one function that was removed from Windows XP:
>> a 720K double density diskette cannot be formatted.  Existing
>> disks are recognized for read/write.  But they removed the option
>> to format them both from the GUI and the command line.
>
>Which, in my very humble opinion, was an evil act.  Instead of
> killing a person, he's breaking both of his legs and watching him
> crawl around.  But you know, Gates has always slipped things in
> very slowly under most people's radar of vision.  It might be 3
> more years before he removes the ability to write to the 720k DD
> disk, but might allow you to read them for another 6.
>
>Don't worry, it's nothing I'm concerned about, but it's still
> humorous to watch the richest man on the planet have this kind of
> control.  All I can say is, upgrade.   Ok, bad choice of words.  :)

Well, as the box said, needs windows 98 or better, so I installed 
linux.
:-)

The funnier part is that when I found out that the superio chipset on 
this mobo was capable of any format you could dream up, apparently 
even including the original apples 128 byte sectors, or even 1024 
byte sectors if you needed it, it was a piece of cake to add the 256 
byte sector formats to the linux floppy drivers abilities.

-- 
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