Re: fd -superformat

2006-01-08 Thread Rick Thomas
The Apple/Mac floppy disk drives were very different pieces of hardware from PC floppy drives, even though they used the same physical media. Superformat uses PC-specific hardware features. I'd be very surprised if you could get it to work with a Mac floppy drive. Bottom line is that the O

Re: fd -superformat

2006-01-08 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there... On Jan 09 2006, Sven Luther wrote: > Well, if you can make it work and provide a patch, why not ? I don't know if this still is the case, but this talk about superformat and floppies brought to my memory the fact that mtools didn't work with the swim3 driver in recent 2.6 kernels (tha

Re: fd -superformat

2006-01-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 01:14:03AM +0100, Eugen Paiuc wrote: > Eugen Paiuc a écrit : > > >Salut, > > > >Comme les derniere images floppy pour powerpc "don't fit" in a normal > >1440 floppy, > >- et comme c'est la seul metode que j'outilise pour instaler mes > >oldword - 3x - > >je me pose la que

Re: fd -superformat

2006-01-08 Thread Eugen Paiuc
Eugen Paiuc a écrit : Salut, Comme les derniere images floppy pour powerpc "don't fit" in a normal 1440 floppy, - et comme c'est la seul metode que j'outilise pour instaler mes oldword - 3x - je me pose la question si on peux pas "superformate" ces disquettes a la mulinux. Par exemple supe