On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Jef Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 2011/8/30 Miloslav Trmač <mitr@xxxxxxxx> >> >> I hope no software is still doing this - that was idiotic 10 years >> ago, let alone now. (The purpose of the seek is to detect drives that >> can support only "double density", i.e. 360K, 5.25" disks, not "high >> density", i.e. 1.2M disks. It doesn't do anything useful for 3.5" >> drives.) > > bah you 3.5 inch floppy elitists!!!!!! I have an original wolfenstein 3-D > on 5.25 '' floppy...its its original sleeve...that I still use. How dare > you suggest that I give up my 5.25 inch floppy. Its actually "floppy" > unlike those hard plastic 3.5 inch cases. I wouldn't dare to say anything against a Wolfenstein 3-D medium. That's fine, any 5.25" floppy _disk_ is fine. The seek is there to detect the double-density _drive_ that was last shipped in PC XT: PC AT already had a high-density drive. Wikipedia tells me that the seek is there to detect hardware that became obsolete in 1984. Mirek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
