<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 07:25, Jonas Smedegaard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dr@jones.dk" target="_blank">dr@jones.dk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
makebootfat not only formats with disk geometry that *is* right, but
also use a handcrafted MBR which has a higher chance of *looking* right
by various BIOSes - both when looking for USB-FDD, USB-ZIP and USB-HDD.</blockquote>
</div>Now, by *right*, do we mean not only that but also something that meets the criteria of <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device#How_to_win" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device#How_to_win</a> (without the problems caused by <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device#Screwed-up_formatting" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_Damage_a_FLASH_Storage_Device#Screwed-up_formatting</a>)?<br>
<br><br>I'm not too familiar with how USB flash works, so I don't know
if USB-{FDD, ZIP, HDD} layouts are compatible with the layout you'd
want to minimize wear. <br><br>Thanks, <br>Luke Faraone<br><a href="http://luke.faraone.cc/" target="_blank">http://luke.faraone.cc</a>