From: geyer@clio.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Helmut Geyer) Subject: Re: Fdformat questions. Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1993 13:44:24 GMT
In article <1993Jul28.122536.1075@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca>, jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) writes:
|>
|> In /etc/ there is a file called fdprm, which seems to have settings
|> for accessing extended floppy formats. I can't figure out how to get
|> them to work, though, and grepping faqs for fdformat doesn't yeild much
|> either.
|> Can I format floppys at >standard format, like 10x80 for a 720k
|> disk? How?
|> Also, can anyone tell me how to get 30 character filenames from the
|> minix mkfs?
|>
You have to apply a patch to the kernel to get non-standard floppy formats.
This patch is on sunsite in kernel/misc-patches/fdpatch.tar.Z. You have to
fiddle a bit with it to get it working, because it is against an older kernel
version. If you can't get it right, I can mail you an exact patch for 0.99pl11.
(I do not have it at this site, otherwise I would do that now).
But I do not use setfdprm, I always use non-standard formats with the exact
device names.
|>
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|> John Henders GO/MU/E d* -p+ c+++ l++ t- m--- s/++ g+ w+++ -x+
Helmut Geyer geyer@kalliope.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de