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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!ukma!rutgers!njitgw.njit.edu!hertz.njit.edu!dic5340
  2. From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  4. Subject: Re: Format 1.2M to 1.44M
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul27.192109.12875@njitgw.njit.edu>
  6. Date: 27 Jul 92 19:21:09 GMT
  7. References: <1992Jul22.201259.7773@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Jul23.194934.18926@njitgw.njit.edu> <1992Jul23.201541.27862@news.columbia.edu>
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  9. Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
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  13. In article <1992Jul23.201541.27862@news.columbia.edu> mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
  14. >
  15. >Actually, the disks read just fine under stock OS/2 2.0, without loading the
  16. >FDREAD driver.  I guess OS/2 actually reads the format specs before reading
  17. >from the floppy.  Maybe that's why it is so slow :-)
  18.  
  19. Interesting.  Perhaps, though, this is simply because OS/2 recognizes
  20. the 1.44MB format.  How does it do with non-standard formats (like the
  21. 1.7MB format)?  Under DOS, you can read the first 18 sectors of each
  22. track, and the rest give sector-not-found errors.
  23.  
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  25.    |)  David Charlap           "I don't even represent myself
  26.   /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu   sometimes so NJIT is right out!.
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