[syslinux] MEMDISK issue with OptiPlex GX280,620

[Gene Cumm]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 15:51, Steve Brown <sbrown7 at umbc.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Gene Cumm 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).
>
> I have one in a machine at home.  I can check this evening, if Google can't
> answer the question.
>
> Steve Brown
> sbrown7 at umbc.edu

The LS-120 supposedly had a C/H/S of 963/8/32
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2000/3/12/171).  The LS-240 supposed had
262/32/56 (http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=12436
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg00894.html).

-- 
-Gene