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- From: mrjg8679@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael R James)
- Subject: Re: Format 1.2M to 1.44M
- References: <1992Jul22.201259.7773@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Jul24.170613.6697@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 21:50:18 GMT
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- kskapin@csws8.ic.sunysb.edu (Keith T Skapinski) 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.
- >>
- >>Thanks in advance.
- >>
- >>Ken
- >>
-
- >The file the previous post was referring to is FDFORMAT18 available from
- >GARBO.UWASA.FI (/pub/pc/diskutils). I downloaded it but it did not work
- >for me. It kept saying error on track 0 head 0 after formatting. There
- >is another file called 800II... in the same place. This one worked for me
- >but it allows 1.2 to go to 1.4 not 1.44. Good enough for an OS/2 boot disk.
-
- >If the original poster is reading this, any ideas why fdformat didn't work
- >for me. I loaded the INT13X, then used FMT.
-
- Hmm. Are you sure it was FDFORMAT18 and not ATFMT110 or something
- like that? I have used the latter (which has progs named INT13X and
- FMT). Maybe it's just a different name?
-
- Anyway, I had problems under certain circumstances formatting floppies
- under OS/2 with FMT. I could go back and check but my problems
- seem to have come about when I tried to format 1 floppy normally and another
- with FMT. I'm pretty sure I got it to work eventually.
- I'll check this out again, I was getting the same error.
- (Great little program BTW)
-
- >| kskapin@ic.sunysb.edu (Keith Skapinski) | place |
-
- --
- Michael James mrjg8679@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
-
- "Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical
- mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying
- on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study
- statistical mechanics."
- -David L. Goodman "States of Matter"
-