[syslinux] MEMDISK issue with OptiPlex GX280,620

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Mon Dec 13 12:22:22 PST 2010


On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 15:01, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> On 12/10/2010 06:10 PM, Gene Cumm wrote:
>>
>> Along the lines of superfloppies, I think the LS-120 drive _might_
>> have acted like a true superfloppy (big unpartitioned device).  You
>> can go bigger but you'll need to specify and track your geometry more
>> carefully.  The others are just standard sizes (even if rare like the
>> 3840 kiB size).
>>
>
> LS-120 (and LS-240) did, indeed, act as a true superfloppy; it generally
> came in as BIOS device 0 as well.

This makes me wish I had an image of one (or at least its geometry and
exact capacity, in case of a partial cylinder).

-- 
-Gene




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