writing img files on floppies

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Thu May 5 15:27:40 UTC 2005


On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 04:19:52PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> >># dd if=yourfile.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k
> >Any particular reason for 18k? (Just curious -- clearly having something
> >bigger than the default is good.)
> It's one track on a 1.44M floppy.

Makes sense. What about bs=1440k?


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