FWIW, 1.72Meg format probably uses 22 sectors per track instead of the old
standard of 18. If Linux can do it, then it's just a driver issue since the
hardware is common. Once upon a time you told the floppy formatter whether
you wanted 8, 9, 10, or 11 sectors per track. High density format doubled
the DOS world from 9 to 18.

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: dkwok [mailto:dkwok@iware.com.au]
-> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 8:31 AM
-> To: Patrick Welche
-> Cc: port-i386@netbsd.org
-> Subject: Re: A boot disk
-> 
-> 
-> >
-> > Oh yes - just checked - one of mine is 378k, but compressed.. 750k
-> uncompressed,
-> > then again, fits nicely on a floppy
-> 
-> Oh about floppy, Linux can format floppy to a capacity of 
-> 1.72 which is what
-> I used for LRP. I have not found any similar tricks with 
-> NetBSD. Can it be
-> done ?
-> 
-> David Kwok
->