[syslinux] MEMDISK issue with OptiPlex GX280,620

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Dec 13 12:36:54 PST 2010


Check the MEMDISK sources; it's in there.

"Gene Cumm" <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:

>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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