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Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening

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On Sun, 15 Jan 2017, Gene Heskett wrote:
> To add to the confusion, Martin, windows won the battle of fdc 
> capabilities around a decade back with the fdc chip makers.  This $300 

Hmm, no.  More like the fdc's all became "IP" ("intellectual property
module") verilog/vhdl to be added as an extra device in ASIC "super-io"
designs.

It is quite possible that one such base fdc "IP" module design used by
lots of such super-io ASICs cut corners (or someone screwed it up, no
way to know for sure), and did not implement the full spec, or did it
badly.

I would be hard pressed to tell you which super-io parts do have a
non-joke fdc.  The only thing I have that uses them is a MSX2+, and it
has its own discrete FDC that has been working flawlessly for 25 years.

> ASUS motherboard, when I bought it to build this machine in 2007, one of 
> the first to support the AMD Phenom quad core chips, has an fdc that is 
> unhappy with a 256 byte sector size, and will crash/lock this machine, 
> so bad that it takes the long push on the power button, doing a 

Are you sure this isn't a kernel driver issue?  The Linux floppy driver
doesn't see much love, and the people who *do* still use it are *not*
good at helping.  We don't see much posts of the "I will help" sort in
LKML.

> You'll have better, if slower, luck with rs-232 and zmodem.

While true, it won't help boot an old x86 box :p  You'd have better luck
with PXE-based network boot, or something.  Should be easy to find an
old NIC with a PXE boot ROM for US$ 10 or so on ebay, if your old box
lacks one :p

-- 
  Henrique Holschuh

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Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2017-01-14 22:40 +0100
  Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2017-01-14 23:10 +0100
  Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Mirko Parthey <mirko.parthey@web.de> - 2017-01-14 23:20 +0100
    Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2017-01-15 15:20 +0100
      Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2017-01-15 15:50 +0100
        Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-01-15 16:00 +0100
      Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-01-15 19:30 +0100
        Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2017-01-15 20:00 +0100
    Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Solved. "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2017-01-15 22:40 +0100
      Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Solved. Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-01-15 23:30 +0100
      Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Solved. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-01-16 00:10 +0100
      Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Solved. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-01-16 00:30 +0100
        Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Solved. John Darrah <xyllyx@gmail.com> - 2017-01-16 02:40 +0100
          Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Solved. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-01-16 04:00 +0100
  Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-01-15 16:10 +0100
    Dell BIOS ( was Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening) "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2017-01-16 19:00 +0100
      Re: Dell BIOS Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-01-16 19:50 +0100
        Re: Dell BIOS "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2017-01-16 22:00 +0100
          Re: Dell BIOS Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-01-16 22:40 +0100
            Re: Dell BIOS John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2017-01-16 23:00 +0100
              Re: Dell BIOS Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-01-16 23:30 +0100
                Re: Dell BIOS John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2017-01-17 00:30 +0100
      Re: Dell BIOS Mirko Parthey <mirko.parthey@web.de> - 2017-01-17 00:40 +0100
        Re: Dell BIOS Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-01-17 02:10 +0100

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