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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> <Brwxzx.BFn@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Jul25.195630.12526@panix.com>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 05:54:59 GMT
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- jrs@panix.com (Jon Saxton) writes:
-
- >>>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.
-
- You can find it on SIMTEL in /dskutl and its actually
- called ATFMT100.
- It's a nice custom diskette formatter for 3 and 5" drives.
- With that said, I have to admit I'm having real problems
- getting it to work under OS/2. A TSR (INT13X) is provided that permits
- DOS to read these special formats. But the formatter (FMT) doesn't
- work in DOS sessions (except for Boots from a:).
- This shouldn't be taken as necessarily that last word, though.
- My experience, as others have noted, is that OS/2 can read extended
- formats without these TSR's, BUT, _I_ can only read 3" diskette's
- this way. OS/2 doesn't like 5" disks formatted > 1.2 (on _my_ system??)
- I have tried the new floppy driver with no success.
- I would be interested in anyone else's experiences with this
- or similiar programs.
-
- >MSDOS on a '386 is a waste of good silicon.
- >Jon Saxton - jrs@panix.com
-
- --
- 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"
-