3.3.1.2 Floppy disks

KBACKUP can support floppy disks in either of two ways:

1. By writing straight to the disk using afio(1) or tar(1) to write directly to the block device. This is not recommend, because error detection is not too good. However, this gives the highest capacity per disk.
2. By treating floppy disks as ``general block devices'' . This is highly recommended, see next section for details.

If you want to use higher than normal capacity floppy formats with KBACKUP , this is no problem. Just tell it about it in the options menu.