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- From: jrs@panix.com (Jon Saxton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Format 1.2M to 1.44M
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.195630.12526@panix.com>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 19:56:30 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.201259.7773@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Jul24.170613.6697@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <Brwxzx.BFn@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- >>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.
-
- Well, no, not really. The program I use is FDFORMAT 2.0 by Chris Hochstatter
- which I have had since DOS days. It comes with source code in Pascal and
- assembly language. I never succeeded in getting the program to run on an
- OS/2 system - I do my extended formatting on a DOS box and simply USE the
- diskettes under OS/2 2.0.
-
- >>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?
-
- I've never heard of ATFMT110. Tell us more.
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- Jon Saxton - jrs@panix.com
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