[Coco] HD floppy controller update: success!

Willard Goosey goosey at virgo.sdc.org
Sun Jul 6 05:13:19 EDT 2008


On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 11:14:39AM -0400, Chuck Youse wrote:

> format such a disk under Linux?  setfdprm/fdformat doesn't seem to do
> the trick (fdformat ignores the setfdprm parameters... dumb)

I was going to recommend investigating "superformat", the formatter
that comes with setfdprm and the rest of the fdutils, but I looked at
the info page and it doesn't support <512byte sectors.  :-(  Perhaps
you have a newer/older/more capable version though.

good luck
Willard
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