Subject: Re: Pre-installation question
To: Leo Weppelman <leo@ahwau.ahold.nl>
From: Waldi Ravens <waldi@moacs.indiv.nl.net>
List: port-atari
Date: 05/04/1995 15:10:36
Leo Weppelman wrote:

> > So it seems that rawwrite has a problem writing disks formatted
> > with Kobold. Could this be caused by the extra sector headers
> > that Kobold creates to speed up floppy access?
>
> I am just using the Rwabs() bios function in rawwrite, I thought
> this would be the most compatable way to do this.

It is, well, should be, :-) compatable. Minit (mkfs_minix for MiNT)
uses Rwabs() for floppies too. I haven't got a clue what could be
going wrong with Kobold formatted floppies (and I don't intend to
investigate :-) ).


Waldi