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sindi keesan wrote:
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> I cannot find online fd0d720 only fd0D720

You probably don't need that.  
fd0d720 is for 720kb on a 5.25" floppy.  

d = double-density 5.25" drive
h = high-density 5.25" drive
u = 3.5" drive (either double or high)

> I noticed for the 360 there are different numbers for 
> d360 and D360 

In the old days, d was used for double-density 5.25"
and D for double-density 3.5" drives.  But subsequently
the D was dropped and u was used for all 3.5" drives.

> but I cannot find a d720.  

You probably want /dev/fd0u720

> Why does BL use the d and h but not D and H?  

D and H were replaced by u.

> fd0D360 is 2,12 while d360 is 2,4.  Are these different 
> types of floppy drives?  

Yes.  D360 is for 360kb on a double-density 3.5" floppy.
d360 is for 360kb on a double-density 5.25" floppy.

> Should I mknod fd0D720 (which is 2,16)?

No.  

> Steven, could you please include at least the 720 in 
> future versions of BL2?  

There will be no future versions of BL2.  Besides, it
is easy to add the Slackware devs.tgz package (which
includes the devices for 720 and 360 floppies).

> you say you are supporting older hardware (which these 
> disks are 

BasicLinux is for 386 systems and above.  XT and 286 
hardware is not being supported.  

> Why do you include 1200?  

For high-density 5.25" drives.  I had one of those
on my system when I did BL1.  The devices were then 
copied to BL2 and BL3.  I should probably remove the 
5.25" devices now.

> I think the 1772 is perfect disks formatted on a 
> regular 3.5" drive to higher capacity 

Yes.

Cheers,
Steven

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