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baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
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> > Would it help to try a different floppy drive in that or a different
> > computer?  Sometime they wear out and spin too slowly (or maybe even too 
> > fast) and might not work right for something this critical.
> >     
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> > In linux you can adjust for this by running floppymeter and setting a 
> > parameter.
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> > I have had drives that work fine in DOS but are not usable in linux 
> > without this adjustment.
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> as you will see if you read what ive written in my earlier messages i have
> tried several machines with several disks and i really cannot see that a
> mixture of quality, clean, standard floppy drives as well as two LS120
> drives that are laser guided (of course) and able to write correctly to
> 120mb superdisks, could all fail to perform properly.. what i do find
> strange though is that no one so far seems to want to address themselves to
> the fact (only revealed to me after doing a google search - including the
> dreaded microsoft.com even..) that a dos formatted floppy does NOT have more
> than 1457664 bytes free space available because of the space used by the
> boot sector, the two file allocation tables and the root directory. it would
> seem as though if you want access to the full 1474560 bytes then you cant
> have any of the above system related areas working!
>
> sindi, is that not so?
>
> cordialement - peter (unixish)
>
>   
Maybe your file is corrupt. Try downloading it again!
Larry