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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ISC floppy format
Keywords: ISC Floppy Format
Message-ID: <1990Dec18.043038.10573@virtech.uucp>
Date: 18 Dec 90 04:30:38 GMT
References: <363@octelb.octel.UUCP>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <363@octelb.octel.UUCP> richard@octel.UUCP (Richard Karasik) writes:
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> SO? what gives here ? I didnt think there was a difference in format!

Other that the fact that there is no DOS logical layout on the floppy, 
there is no differenc.  Writing to the diskette using tar should work
correctly with no problems.  

Perhaps you ran into a diskette alignment difference between the
two drives.  Perhaps the diskette drives are not compatable for
other reasons.


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