First post, by keenerb
I've never seen this mentioned before, but apparently you can create super-large floppy disks to use with an HxC-enabled Gotek floppy device, even on DSDD systems.
I've created both a 2.5 megabyte DSDD image, and a 6.8 megabyte DSHD image, and they appear to work perfectly well.
I was tinkering around in the "DOS Floppy Disk File Browser" and noticed that there were some oddball FAT12 sizes. I created an image with it, dragged a bunch of files over, and I'm now booting directly off of a 6.8 megabyte disk image.
That is large enough to ditch my XT-IDE adapter and free up an ISA slot, to be honest, especially since I can have a hundred 6.8mb floppy images...
I can't be the first one to try this, so is there a catch? Are apps beyond the simple games I've tried going to have problems? Will the disks get corrupted over time?