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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Subject: Re: Format 1.2M to 1.44M
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.201541.27862@news.columbia.edu>
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- References: <1992Jul22.201259.7773@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Jul23.194934.18926@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:15:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.194934.18926@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul22.201259.7773@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> kls@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Kenneth L Shellberg) writes:
- >
- >>Very recently, there was a posting which recommended a DOS floppy
- >>formatter called fdformat, which will format a 1.2M 5.25 floppy to
- >>1.44M. Can anyone tell me where to find this program? It sounds like
- >>it would be very useful to me.
- >
- >I'd recommend not using it. First of all, it probably won't work
- >under OS/2. I'd be surprised if it did.
- >
- >Second, I had problems with it under DOS 5.0. It requires a TSR be
- >installed (FDREAD.COM). This TSR enables unusual formats by
- >suppressing certain error handlers within DOS. It makes some format
- >programs (like Norton's Safe Format) refuse to format a disk that
- >hasn't previously been formatted.
- >
- >The disks you produce with FDFORMAT are usually unreadable by
- >computers that haven't loaded the FDREAD.COM TSR.
-
- Actually, the disks read just fine under stock OS/2 2.0, without loading the
- FDREAD driver. I guess OS/2 actually reads the format specs before reading
- from the floppy. Maybe that's why it is so slow :-)
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